miss off

English

Verb

miss off (third-person singular simple present misses off, present participle missing off, simple past and past participle missed off)

(transitive, UK) To drop; leave off; omit.
- 2012, Jill Stuart, Headhunt:
  The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished.
- 2015, Gary Russell, Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation:
  I missed off the thing too about being a pretty good reader of human body language.

Synonyms

exclude, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit

Antonyms

include

Translations

to drop, to omit

German: weglassen (de)

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