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Meaning of lift off | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
  2. To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.

Examples

“We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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