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Off and on
adverb
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Definitions
1.
adverb
Intermittently.
"With so much worry, I only slept off and on last night."
2.
adverb
On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land.
Synonyms
on and off
fitful
interrupted
ashore
shiftingly
shoreward
up and down
hither and thither
fluctuatingly
afloat
driftingly
changeably
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