To decide that something will not happen
To tell an animal or person to stop attacking or chasing someone
To decide to stop something that is already happening
To stop criticizing or attacking another person
All right, you win – you can call off the dogs now.
And the first thing I'm telling you to do is to call off your creature that has assumed the form of an angel.
Go and tell her if she doesn't want to cook, we can call off the dinner party.
I yelled to the man to call off his dog.
I'll call off my Warlords, and the Medalonians can face the Kariens on their own and to hell with them.
If we have much more rain, the game might be called off.
She’s called off the wedding.
Well, Bruce wouldn't be needing it now; jellyback that he was, he would call off killing Mrs Jones now the police had been to visit him.
With the weather worsening, they’ve called off the search for survivors.
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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