give off
verb
(tr, adverb) to emit or discharge: the mothballs gave off an acrid odour
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How to use give off in a sentence
It is far too important a business for anyone to give off-hand an opinion upon it.
A Roving Commission | G. A. Henty
Other Idioms and Phrases with give off
give off
Send out, emit, as in Certain chemical changes give off energy, or This mixture gives off a very strange odor. [Early 1800s]
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