whisk off

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Pronunciation[edit]

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Verb[edit]

whisk off (third-person singular simple present whisks off, present participle whisking off, simple past and past participle whisked off)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to rapidly remove.
    He was whisked off to the hospital.
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To take (a person) on a surprise romantic journey.
    For our honeymoon, he whisked me off to the Bahamas.

Synonyms[edit]

(take on a surprise romantic holiday): whisk away

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