doff
verb (used with object)
to remove or take off, as clothing.
will doff
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future tenseof doff.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“Courage Hats” wants a little too forcefully to guide us into “deep” places where we will doff our hidey-hats to reveal our true selves — abstract concepts for the literalizing peewee set.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
Sports fans will doff their cap to a great performance by any competitor.
From Time ● Mar. 3, 2010
In the Old Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Southern gallantry will doff its cares, put on its smiling face.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
