miss off

English

Verb

miss off (third-person singular simple present misses off, present participle missing off, simple past and past participle missed off)

1. (transitive, UK) To drop; leave off; omit.
   • 2012, Jill Stuart, Headhunt:

     The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished.

   • 2015, Gary Russell, Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation:

     I missed off the thing too about being a pretty good reader of human body language.

Synonyms

• exclude, miss out; see also Thesaurus:omit

Antonyms

• include

Translations

to drop, to omit

• German: weglassen (de)