pack (up or off)

verb

Definition of pack (up or off)next
as in to exit
to leave a place often for another with the dinner conversation becoming more and more desultory, the time had clearly come to pack off

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pack (up or off)
  1. exit
  2. move
  3. depart
  4. bail out
  5. get
  6. go
  7. dig out
  8. walk out
Verb
  • There needs to be balance and some states should exit the program.
    David Shepardson, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Clients may lose faith in your ability to protect more than just their data and may decide to exit.
    Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of exit
Verb
  • The vehicles were moving quickly down the straight.
    Roberto Baldwin, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The team conceded two goals in the first five minutes of the game, leading to an early timeout for Craig Berube, but the wake-up call didn’t move the needle much.
    Nick Ashbourne, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of move
Verb
  • By dawn, Assad had departed Damascus for Russia, without a word to the people his family had ruled—and gassed, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered—for a half century.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Maybe the Diamondbacks can unload Montgomery and replace the offense lost by departing free agents Christian Walker, Joc Pederson and Randal Grichuk.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of depart
Verb
  • What’s more, taxpayers were forced to bail out producers while those same billion-dollar companies made record profits.
    Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • At some point the feds must stop bailing out people who build homes and factories in the path of disasters.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of bail out
Verb
  • The video showed that the girl tried to get Witcher's attention to go to the bathroom but when Witcher finally checked on her two hours later, the child had urinated on herself, the document said.
    Claire Osborn, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Elko’s not the type to get excited about early October standings.
    David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of get
Verb
  • The cases, brought by 60 men and 60 women, span incidents going as far back as 1991.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Extra funding means nothing when the IRS is used to go after political opponents and perceived undesirables.
    William Henck, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of go
Verb
  • But don't go digging out your hundred-year-old light bulbs from the closet just yet, there's still more work to be done.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In upstate New York, people were digging out after heavy snow fell.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of dig out
Verb
  • Immediately after Dylan’s tense moment with Seeger, Dylan walks out to find a loaded Cash trying (failing) to back his car out of a parking lot.
    Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • As the last of the peppermint bark cannoli were devoured and the party wound down, my wife and I walked out to see Michigan Central Station and its surrounding Roosevelt Park all lit up in white.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of walk out
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Thesaurus Entries Near pack (up or off)

pack (up or in)

pack (up or off)

pact

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“Pack (up or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pack%20%28up%20or%20off%29. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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