lift off

present singular third person lifts off · participle present lifting off · participle past lifted off · past lifted off

1. Synonym of take off (leave the ground and begin flight).

   Synonyms: take off

2. To lift something physically off the ground, or off something else.

   1 more example

   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.

   2026 January 21, Vitali Vitaliev, “By train to a New World”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 68