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Meaning of start off | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To begin.
  2. To set out on a trip.
  3. To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about.

Examples

“She started off with a lullaby.”
“They started off on horseback.”
“I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.”
“Don't start him off about that again.”

CEFR level

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

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