To put off Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.
    I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle.
    We might put him off with this answer. Bentley.
    (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory = to pass off . (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat .
Definitions
  1. to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore.

Webster 1913