split off
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
When one part breaks away and becomes separate from a bigger thing
"A large chunk of ice had split off from the glacier and drifted into the sea."
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Many A True Nerd · 12:53
Right, split off Ara.
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Sidemen · 9:28
I'd like to split off.
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PowerfulJRE · 47:51
I had to kind of split off.
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Surviving supermutants split off into different groups,
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minutephysics · 3:09
The discovery meant they were split off