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To work off

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to remove gradually, as by labor, or a gradual process; as, beer works off impurities in fermenting.

See also: Work



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So short a period of sleep then intervened before early morning rising that my system did not have time to work off the alcohol.
Just as she needed to work off her spleen so she had sometimes to exercise her still-existing faculty of thinking- and the pretext for that was a game of patience.
I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, but that doesn't matter--I'm an English countess, doing barefoot dancing to work off the mortgage on the ancestral castle, and they eat me.
 
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