Meaning of lift off | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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.”

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