Usually means: Remove or discard something quickly.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word shake off:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. shake off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shake-off, shake off: Merriam-Webster
  3. shake off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shake off: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shake-off, shake-off: Wordnik
  6. shake off: Wiktionary
  7. shake off: Dictionary.com
  8. shake off: Rhymezone
  9. shake off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. shake off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. shake off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake off: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake off: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shake off: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shake off)

▸ verb:  To remove (something attached to, on or clinging to an object) by shaking.
▸ verb:  To dissociate oneself from (an allegation or rumour).
▸ verb:  To lose someone who is tracking you.
▸ verb:  To rid oneself of a malady or its symptoms

Similar:
cast off, throw away, throw off, throw, drop, cast, shed, shake, escape from, forshake, more...

Opposite:
retain, hold on to, keep

Types:
ignore, dismiss, brush off, shrug off, more...

Phrases:
shake the dust off feet, Shake It Off, shake something off, more...

Adjectives:
away, cut down, abstract, void, cut out, radicate, clear, obliterate, level, ejective, split up

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Similar:
cast off, throw away, throw off, throw, drop, cast, shed, shake, escape from, forshake, more...

Opposite:
retain, hold on to, keep

Types:
ignore, dismiss, brush off, shrug off, more...

Phrases:
shake the dust off feet, Shake It Off, shake something off, more...

Adjectives:
away, cut down, abstract, void, cut out, radicate, clear, obliterate, level, ejective, split up



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