Meaning of start off | Babel Free

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.

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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.”

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