Shake Off

Definition: Shake Off

Shake Off

Verb

1. Get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me".

2. Get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Shake Off

Ejection

Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate.

Liberation

Gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape.

Underestimation

Make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of; belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake off as dewdrops from the lion's mane.

Crosswords: Shake Off

Shake off those sad blues (TIME, LOVE AND TENDERNESS; performing artist: Michael Bolton)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shake off": shake off as dewdrops from the lion's mane ♦ shake off the dust of one's feet ♦ shake off the yoke. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskud (shake). (various references)

Albanian

shkund (agitate, jar, jog, pump, punish, rock, shake, thresh). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تساقط (breakdown, collapse, drop out, fall, molt, moult, shake), ‏تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, ditch, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отърсвам се от (shake oneself free, shed, shrug off), отърсвам, оттласквам (push back, thrust aside). (various references)

Czech

zbavit se (banish, cast off, dispose of, do away, drive away, get rid of, grow out of, lose, oust, unload). (various references)

Dutch

afschudden. (various references)

Esperanto

forskui. (various references)

Finnish

ravistaa (shake, shake up), pudistaa (agitate, shake, shock). (various references)

French

se dégarnir (shake), se débarrasser de. (various references)

German

abschütteln (get rid off, lose, shake out, slough off, throw off). (various references)

Greek 

ξεφεύγω από (break away). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� ער מן (dissociate oneself from), ל�"ת� ער (awake, shake oneself). (various references)

Hungarian

megszabadul (get free, get rid of, to be rid of sg, to dispose, to make a clear sweep of sg, to shake off, to throw off, to unload), leráz (shake down, to be quit of, to shake down, to shake off, to shift off, to throw off). (various references)

Italian

seminare (leave behind, scatter, seed, sow, spread), scrollarsi di dosso, sbarazzarsi di (shrug off, throw off), togliersi (doff, get out, shed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

振り落す (to shake off, to throw off), 振り払う (to shake off), 振り捨てる (forsake, to shake off), 振り切る (to shake free from, to shake off), 振るい落とす (to shake off), 払い落とす (to brush off, to shake off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふりすてる (forsake, to shake off), ふりおとす (to shake off, to shake or throw off, to throw off), ふりきる (to shake free from, to shake off), ふりはらう (to shake off), ふるいおとす (to screen or eliminate, to shake off, to sift out), はらいおとす (to brush off, to shake off). (various references)

Manx

cur jeh (abort, deter, disrobe, postpone, postponement, undressing, waive, work off). (various references)

Pig Latin

akeshay offay

Portuguese

sacudir (abet, bob, concuss, flip, flirt, incite, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, rock, shake, stir up, swing, toss, wag, waver, whisk, yank), livrar-se de (claw off, do away with, get rid of, leave out, make away with). (various references)

Romanian

se descotorosi de (cast away), scutura praful, scutura jugul. (various references)

Russian 

стряхивать (shake down, shake up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otresti (knock down, rid, shake, shake down, whisk). (various references)

Spanish

sacudirse (jerk, jig, kill oneself, rock, thrash about, throw off, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up), sacudir (bang, beat, invertebrate, jog, jolt, kick in, shake, shake out, shake up, sway, toss, worry), deshacerse de un rato (dispose of, put off), dar esquinazo a. (various references)

Swedish

skaka av, göra sig av med (dispose of, dump, jettison, work off). (various references)

Turkish

silkmek (dust, give a jerk, jerk, shake), silkelemek (shake, shake down, shake out, shake up), yakasını sıyırmak (get rid of, shunt), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, smooth away, throw off), başından savmak (doff, evade, get rid of, give smb. the run-around, jettison, shift). (various references)

Ukrainian

струшувати (shake down), позбутися (forfeit, get rid of, lose, put off, throw off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fakes, hakes, hokes, khafs, okehs, shake, shako, sheaf.

-4 letters: effs, fake, fash, fehs, foes, haes, hake, hoes, hoke, hose, kaes, kafs, keas, kefs, khaf, koas, oafs, oaks, offs, okas, okeh, okes, safe, sake, shea, shoe, soak, sofa, soke.

-5 letters: aff, ash, ask, eff, efs, fas, feh, foe, foh, hae, hao, has, hes, hoe.