offed
USAWFT/ɔft/UKOFT/ɒft/
- 1Simple past and past participle of off.
The crime boss offed anyone who dared to cross him.
Two informants were offed within a week of agreeing to testify.
Note
Built on the adverb off, the verb inflects like any regular verb. One form serves both the past (they offed him) and the participle (he had been offed, he was offed by rivals). Most readers know it as slang for 'kill.' In Nigeria, the Philippines and Singapore, though, offed can simply mean switched off, as in she offed the lights. Let context tell you whether anyone was harmed.
She offed the generator before going to bed.
Has anyone offed the lights in the hall?
offed is a form of off
off, verb: To kill someone. Full entry
- Spelling
- off → offed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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