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take off

With or without an object

Leave the ground (a plane)

The plane took off ten minutes late.

Remove clothing

She took off her coat and sat down.

With or without an object

It can be used with no object, and it can also take one. With an object it is usually separable: turn the volume up, turn it up.

The particle: off

This verb belongs to the group ‘setting out and leaving’.

Others in the group: set off, head off.