Phrasal Verb: Give off

Phrasal Verb: Give off


Meaning: Emit pollution or something else unpleasant

Example: The police stopped the van because it was GIVING OFF a lot of black smoke.

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Phrasal Verb: Give off


Meaning: Behave in a way that makes people think of you in a certain way

Example: She GIVES OFF an air of nobility.

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Phrasal Verb: Give off


Meaning: Expand

Example: The company is GIVING OFF all over the country.

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Phrasal Verb: Give off


Meaning: Follow or take one of 2 or more branches (instructions, in machine code) in writing a computer program (using system software for a programming language)

Example: A particular application of a processing code can be GIVEN OFF while requiring minimal run-time support.

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Other Phrasal Verbs

We have 21 phrasal verbs with 'GIVE'

- Give away
- Give back
- Give in
- Give in to
- Give it to
- Give it up for
- Give it up to
- Give of
- Give off
- Give onto
- Give out
- Give over
- Give over to
- Give over!
- Give up
- Give up on
- Give up to
- Give way
- Give way to
- Give yourself up
- Give yourself up to

 

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