doff
verb (used with object)
to remove or take off, as clothing.
has doffed
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present perfectof doff (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In the strongest scene, Sabine, by chance, finds herself alone in a garden with the king, whom she doesn’t immediately recognize because he has doffed his wig and coat.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
One of America's Apollo 11 heroes has doffed his space suit for the last time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The general has doffed his bemedaled uniform for casual mufti in order to soften his military image, has abandoned droning prepared speeches for off-the-cuff talks and has even begun to enjoy the political stump.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus Death, who kings and tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doffed; For though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone aloft.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
