make off

verb

made off; making off; makes off
Synonyms of make offnext

intransitive verb

: to leave in haste
see also:
make off with

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But the hauls weren’t always the same; in one of them the thieves made off only with a fake diamond worth less than $200. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026 Sure, Amazon’s Prime Video made off with the Thursday Night Football package—$11 billion still goes a long way, especially when the property in question no longer had any appeal to the previous TV rights holders. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 31 July 2026 The torque theft recalls the brazen theft at the Louvre in Paris, in which thieves made off with $102 million worth of jewels in less than eight minutes, also in broad daylight. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2026 More than 400,000 KitKat bars, some 12 tons of chocolate, had vanished while being transported from a Nestlé factory in central Italy to its destination in Poland, after thieves made off with the truck. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for make off

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1680, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of make off was circa 1680

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“Make off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20off. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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