Lift off
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).
- 2 depart from the ground wordnet
- 3 To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.
"We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation."
Example
More examples"We then had to endure a four-hour-long change of bogies at Brest - from the Soviet 1520mm-wide gauge to the 1435mm Polish and West European - when our carriage, with passengers inside, was lifted off the track by giant railway jacks, giving us a brief and not entirely unpleasant feeling of levitation."