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Synonyms for shake off
shake off
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
shake, shake off, throw off, escape fromverb
get rid of
"I couldn't shake the car that was following me"
Synonyms:
throw, cast off, drop, shake up, escape from, agitate, judder, sway, cast, shake, stir, rock, throw away, throw off, didder, stimulate, excite, shedshed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, dropverb
get rid of
"he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
Synonyms:
roam, project, flip, overleap, spue, redact, strike down, fuddle, drift, put down, draw, send away, have, hold, fling, hurl, slough, mold, deteriorate, cast, rove, put, bedevil, roll, pour forth, befuddle, spend, omit, throw away, frame, moult, dangle, confound, vomit up, chuck out, mould, throw off, toss, throw up, expend, contrive, retch, purge, give, discombobulate, tramp, toss away, drip, disgorge, cat, cut down, dribble, thrust, overlook, stray, devolve, leave out, miss, shake, exuviate, bewilder, shed, fox, cast away, sink, chuck, pretermit, make, range, molt, vagabond, swan, unload, drop off, set down, fell, cast off, knock off, toss out, flatten, ramble, spill, neglect, cast aside, throw, regurgitate, wander, vomit, throw out, hurtle, put away, escape from, spew, honk, dismiss, dispose, cast out, regorge, drop, drop down, switch, discharge, upchuck, send packing, be sick, swing, discard, barf, confuse, sick, couch, bemuse, degenerate, puke
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26 | have | |
#132 | make | |
#288 | project | |
#555 | give | |
#605 | range | |
#679 | put | |
#836 | rock | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1760 | cat | |
#1784 | frame | |
#1810 | switch | |
#2032 | miss | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2394 | cast | |
#2595 | roll | |
#2919 | spend | |
#3222 | fox | |
#3350 | draw | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4404 | throw | |
#4538 | fell | |
#5162 | swing | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6367 | chuck | |
#7229 | sink | |
#7356 | flip | |
#8150 | shake | |
#8245 | shed | |
#8988 | mold | |
#10284 | stir | |
#10368 | swan | |
#10651 | couch | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#11777 | spill | |
#11779 | drift | |
#12572 | thrust | |
#12747 | stimulate | |
#12803 | excite | |
#14874 | toss | |
#15596 | dismiss | |
#16141 | dispose | |
#17234 | rove | |
#17542 | wander | |
#17665 | discard | |
#18398 | drip | |
#18651 | stray | |
#19766 | omit | |
#20010 | overlook | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#20466 | sway | |
#20937 | slough | |
#20940 | mould | |
#21908 | purge | |
#25040 | tramp | |
#25519 | roam | |
#26291 | dangle | |
#28374 | unload | |
#29320 | degenerate | |
#30664 | vomit | |
#32801 | expend | |
#32886 | fling | |
#37387 | deteriorate | |
#38443 | puke | |
#38590 | ramble | |
#39493 | vagabond | |
#40167 | flatten | |
#49599 | spew | |
#49901 | hurl | |
#50992 | dribble | |
#53287 | honk | |
#54814 | barf | |
#59581 | confound | |
#71000 | molt | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#103482 | contrive | |
#116093 | regurgitate | |
#117158 | moult | |
#154506 | disgorge | |
#155372 | hurtle | |
#169138 | didder | |
#175654 | retch | |
#189431 | befuddle | |
#207516 | redact | |
#216211 | bedevil | |
#224053 | bewilder | |
#234056 | upchuck | |
#270504 | fuddle | |
#305290 | judder |
How to use shake off in a sentence?
The real third rail of American politics is race and racism and if you're accused of it by people in your own party, then it becomes something you can't really shake off, he's skirted around it for a long time… what it's done is it's opened him up to attacks from the inside in a way that hadn't existed before and that I think could have a corrosive effect.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Kim had dreamed of becoming the president of North Korea and he effectively made it come true, he has long sought to shake off the abnormal military-first policy the country has stuck to for a long time.
Terry Pratchett, "Small Gods" (1992):
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
A positive move develops its own momentum, as we saw with the clearly disappointing jobs report, even some bad news is not enough to shake off the positive feeling that has been driving prices higher.
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