to burn off
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /bɜrn ɔf/
:
quemar
- Young men and all their excess energy, they need a place to burn it off.
- burn off excess energy
And that's never, ever going to help you burn fat off your midsection effortlessly.
- And that's never, ever going to help you burn fat off your midsection effortlessly.
- Their latest study shows that chess players burn thousands of calories during the game.
- So they kind of counterbalance whatever extra calories they may have burnt off doing the cardio.
- If you're eating a low carb, high fat diet, you are burning a lot of fat, but you're also storing a lot of fat.
- Another thing is this, in order to burn a lot of calories, to lose a lot of weight, you got to do some serious work.
- And so you burn off a lot of psychophysiological resources in anger.
Examples
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Engaging in sports is a fun way to burn off excess energy after a big meal.
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And that helps burn off the fat.
Fiction book (1993) -
Kids need to be able to run around and play and just burn off energy.
Blog text (26) -
How do you burn off energy, Georgia?
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I find it keeps them in a really good mood for them to burn off loads of their energy.
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Cardio exercise is the best way to work up a sweat and burn off fat.
Blog text (18) -
Even in cold-weather states, it feels great to get outside and burn off some calories.
Blog text (15) -
When you're feeling anxious, getting up out of your chair can literally burn off nervousness.
Academic text (2009) -
For example, a short strength workout can burn off many more calories than a longer cardiovascular workout.
Blog text (15) -
In order to burn off excess energy, Millan teaches several owners how to put their dogs on a treadmill.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
191
3.2
To use up money, energy, or other resources
155
2.0
To exercise to improve your health
23
3.5
To get rid of something by exercising or paying money
22
3.4
To use energy from the body or fuel when you move
4
3.0
To reduce the fat on your body by eating less and exercising
1
4.8
To lose weight by sweating, often during hard exercise or heat
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to clear vegetation by setting fire' is directly derived from combining 'burn' (to set on fire) with the particle 'off', which commonly signals removal or separation. This verb+particle composition is a regular, compositional English pattern and is cross-linguistically plausible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Burn off comes from the image of a fire using up fuel: burn (use up) and off (away). So when you exercise you 'burn off' extra energy or calories, meaning your body uses them up.