[{"Bold_text": "adverb", "List Items": ["so as to be no longer supported or attached:This button is about to come off.", "so as to be no longer covering or enclosing:to take the wrapping off.to take a hat off;to take the wrapping off.", "away from a place:to look off toward the west.to run off;to look off toward the west.", "away from a path, course, etc.; aside:This road branches off to Grove City.", "so as to be away or on one's way:to cast off.to start off early;to cast off.", "away from what is considered normal, regular, standard, or the like:to go off on a tangent.", "from a charge or price:He took 10 percent off for all cash purchases.", "at a distance in space or future time:Summer is only a week off.to back off a few feet;Summer is only a week off.", "out of operation or effective existence:Turn the lights off.", "into operation or action:The alarm goes off at noon.", "so as to interrupt continuity or cause discontinuance:Negotiations have been broken off.", "in absence from work, service, a job, etc.:two days off at Christmas.", "completely ; utterly :to kill off all the inhabitants.", "with prompt or ready performance:to dash a letter off.", "to fulfillment, or into execution or effect:The contest came off on the appointed day.", "into nonexistence or nothingness:My headache passed off soon.", "so as to be delineated, divided, or apportioned:Mark it off into equal parts.", "away from a state of consciousness:I must have dozed off.", "Nautical.away from the land, a ship, the wind, etc."]}, {"Bold_text": "preposition", "List Items": ["so as no longer to be supported by, attached to, on, resting on, or unified with:Break a piece of bread off the loaf.Take your feet off the table!Break a piece of bread off the loaf.", "deviating from:off course.off balance;off course.", "below or less than the usual or expected level or standard:I was off my golf game.20 percent off the marked price;I was off my golf game.", "away, disengaged, or resting from:to be off duty on Tuesdays.", "Informal.refraining or abstaining from; denying oneself the pleasure, company, practice, etc., of:He's off gambling.", "away from; apart or distant from:a village off the main road.", "leading into or away from:an alley off 12th Street.", "not fixed on or directed toward, as the gaze, eyes, etc.:Their eyes weren't off the king for a moment.", "Informal.from (a specified source):I bought it off a street vendor.", "from or of, indicating material or component parts:to lunch off cheese and fruit.", "from or by such means or use of:living off his parents.living off an inheritance;living off his parents.", "Nautical.at some distance to seaward of:off Cape Hatteras."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["in error; wrong :You are off on that point.", "slightly abnormal or not quite sane:He is a little off, but he's really harmless.", "not up to standard; not so good or satisfactory as usual; inferior or subnormal:a good play full of off moments.", "no longer in effect, in operation, or in process:The agreement is off.", "stopped from flowing, as by the closing of a valve:The electricity is off.", "in a specified state, circumstance, etc.:to be badly off for money.", "(of time) free from work or duty; nonworking :a pastime for one's off hours.", "not working at one's usual occupation:We're off Wednesdays during the summer.", "of less than the ordinary activity, liveliness, or lively interest; slack :an off season in the tourist trade.", "unlikely ; remote ; improbable :on the off chance that we'd find her at home.", "more distant; farther :the off side of a wall.", "(of a vehicle, single animal, or pair of animals hitched side by side) of, being, or pertaining to the right as seen from the rider's or driver's viewpoint ( near ):the off horse;the off side.", "starting on one's way; leaving:They're off and running in the third race at Aqueduct.I'm off to Europe on Monday.They're off and running in the third race at Aqueduct.", "lower in price or value; down :Stock prices were off this morning.", "Nautical.noting one of two like things that is the farther from the shore; seaward:the off side of the ship.", "Cricket.noting or pertaining to that side of the wicket or of the field opposite that on which the batsman stands."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the state or fact of being off.", "Cricket.the off side."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to go off or away; leave (used imperatively):Off, and don't come back!"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Slang.to kill; slay ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["get1(def57) get1(def57)."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffixal use of the adverboff,forming nouns that denote competitions, especially between the finalists of earlier competitions or as a means of deciding a tie:cookoff; playoff; runoff."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["offered.", "office.", "officer.", "official."]}]