make off

verb

1. (intr, adverb) to go or run away in haste

2. to steal or abduct

Idioms and Phrases

Depart in haste, run away, as in The cat took one look at Richard and made off . [c. 1700]

make off with . Take something away; also, steal something, as in I can't write it down; Tom made off with my pen , or The burglars made off with the stereo and computer as well as jewelry . [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

The burglars made off with eight other items of jewellery.

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In another high-profile break-in, thieves last month broke into the French capital's Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth more than $1 million.

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He is believed to have made off on foot into an alleyway beside the house.

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The burglars however made off with eight other items of jewellery.

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Within eight minutes, they made off with some of France's most valuable treasure belonging to former royalty or imperial rulers.

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