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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. minimize the importance of, brush aside;
- Example: "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

shrug off \shrug off\, v. t. To ignore; to disregard; to brush aside; to minimize[2] the effects of; as, to shrug off predictions of disaster. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shrug off v 1: minimize the importance of, brush aside; "Jane shrugged off the news that her stock had fallen 3 points"