away : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a game played away from home
  road game.
  

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• bear, abide . Obs. or Archaic

  "The calling of assemblies, I can not away with." (Isa. i. 13

  ), i. e., "I can not bear or endure [it]."
• one, signifies, take him away. "Away with, crucify him." John xix. 15.

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A*way"-go"ing adjective

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1. (Law) Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

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• verb make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  back out; crawfish; pull back; pull in one's horns; crawfish out; withdraw; retreat.
  
  • We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  • He backed out of his earlier promise
  • The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns

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• verb trade in in a bartering transaction
  

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• verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
  bear off; carry away; carry off; bear away.
  
  • Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
  • The car carried us off to the meeting
  • I'll take you away on a holiday
  • I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

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• verb work hard on something
  beaver.
  

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• verb perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly
  
  • Mr. Jones blazed away in one passage after another to loud applause
• verb shoot rapidly and repeatedly
  blaze.
  
  • He blazed away at the men
• verb speak with fire and passion
  
  • He blazed away at his opponents in the Senate

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• verb force to go away by blinking
  wink; blink.
  
  • blink away tears

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• verb move away or escape suddenly
  break; break out.
  
  • The horses broke from the stable
  • Three inmates broke jail
  • Nobody can break out--this prison is high security
• verb break off (a piece from a whole)
  chip; chip off; break off; come off.
  
  • Her tooth chipped
• verb interrupt a continued activity
  break.
  
  • She had broken with the traditional patterns
• verb withdraw from an organization or communion
  splinter; secede.
  
  • After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away
• verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  lam; run; head for the hills; hightail it; bunk; take to the woods; scarper; escape; fly the coop; break away; scat; turn tail.
  
  • If you see this man, run!
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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• noun the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
  breakaway.
  
  • there was a breakaway by the discontented members
  • a breaking away from family and neighborhood
• noun departing hastily
  

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• verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
  bear off; carry away; carry off; bear away.
  
  • Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
  • The car carried us off to the meeting
  • I'll take you away on a holiday
  • I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

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• verb take away by means of a vehicle
  cart off; haul off; cart away.
  
  • They carted off the old furniture

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• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; cast out; put away; discard; toss out.
  
  • Put away your worries

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• verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
  turn back; drive out; dispel; chase away; drive off; run off.
  
  • Drive away potential burglars
  • drive away bad thoughts
  • dispel doubts
  • The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

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• verb remove or withdraw gradually: "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life"
  chip away.
  

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• verb remove or withdraw gradually: "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life"
  chip away.
  

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• verb remove from sight
  clear off.
  

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• verb come to be detached
  detach; come off.
  
  • His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery
• verb leave in a certain condition
  
  • She came away angry

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• verb move quickly to another scene or focus when filming
  
  • `cut away now!' the director shouted
• verb remove by cutting off or away
  
  • cut away the branch that sticks out

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• verb become less in amount or intensity
  slack off; slack; abate; let up.
  
  • The storm abated
  • The rain let up after a few hours

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• verb terminate, end, or take out
  extinguish; eliminate; get rid of.
  
  • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  • eliminate my debts

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• verb move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race
  
• verb remove by drawing or pulling
  draw off; pull off.
  
  • She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth
  • draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese

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• verb lose personal contact over time
  drift apart.
  
  • The two women, who had been roommates in college, drifted apart after they got married

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• verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
  turn back; drive out; dispel; chase away; drive off; run off.
  
  • Drive away potential burglars
  • drive away bad thoughts
  • dispel doubts
  • The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

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• verb get worse
  drop off; drop away; slip.
  
  • My grades are slipping

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• verb become smaller or lose substance
  dwindle; dwindle down.
  
  • Her savings dwindled down

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• noun a becoming gradually less
  dwindling.
  
  • there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family

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• verb remove soil or rock
  erode; fret.
  
  • Rain eroded the terraces
• verb wear away or erode
  fret.
  

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• noun (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
  wearing; eating away; eroding; erosion.
  

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• verb flow back or recede
  ebb off; ebb out; ebb down; ebb.
  
  • the tides ebbed at noon

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• verb become weaker
  dissolve; fade out.
  
  • The sound faded out

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• noun gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength
  

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• verb get worse
  drop off; drop away; slip.
  
  • My grades are slipping
• verb diminish in size or intensity
  fall off.
  

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• etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.

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• adverb by a considerable margin
  far and away; by far.
  
  • she was by far the smartest student
  • it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten

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• verb place in a container for keeping records
  file.
  
  • File these bills, please
• verb put into an archive
  archive.
  

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• verb flow off or away gradually
  flow off.
  
  • The water flowed off from the pipe

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• verb spend frivolously and unwisely
  shoot; fool; fool away; fritter away; dissipate; fritter.
  
  • Fritter away one's inheritance

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• verb cause to lose courage
  scare off; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
  
  • dashed by the refusal

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• verb spend frivolously and unwisely
  shoot; fool; fool away; fritter away; dissipate; fritter.
  
  • Fritter away one's inheritance

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• verb spend frivolously and unwisely
  shoot; fool; fool away; fritter away; dissipate; fritter.
  
  • Fritter away one's inheritance

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• verb run away from confinement
  break loose; escape.
  
  • The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
• verb escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  get out; escape; get off; get by.
  
  • She gets away with murder!
  • I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
• verb remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
  escape.
  
  • We escaped to our summer house for a few days
  • The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer

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• verb make a gift of
  
  • She gave away her antique furniture
• verb make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  disclose; reveal; unwrap; bring out; expose; let on; discover; divulge; break; let out.
  
  • The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
  • The actress won't reveal how old she is
  • bring out the truth
  • he broke the news to her
  • unwrap the evidence in the murder case
• verb formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father
  
• verb give away information about somebody
  shop; denounce; tell on; stag; rat; betray; snitch; grass; shit.
  
  • He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

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• verb move away from a place into another direction
  go; depart.
  
  • Go away before I start to cry
  • The train departs at noon
• verb go away from a place
  leave; go forth.
  
  • At what time does your train leave?
  • She didn't leave until midnight
  • The ship leaves at midnight
• verb become invisible or unnoticeable
  vanish; disappear.
  
  • The effect vanished when day broke
• verb get lost, as without warning or explanation
  vanish; disappear.
  
  • He disappeared without a trace

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• noun the act of departing
  going; departure; leaving.
  

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• verb study intensively, as before an exam
  drum; swot up; bone up; get up; bone; cram; mug up; swot.
  
  • I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam

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• verb take away by means of a vehicle
  cart off; haul off; cart away.
  
  • They carted off the old furniture

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• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

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• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  salt away; put in; stack away; hive away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

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• noun a place where you are just as comfortable and content as if you were home
  home from home.
  

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• verb prevent from coming close
  
  • I tried to keep the child away from the pool

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• verb deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it
  laugh off.
  
  • She laughs away all these problems

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• verb save up as for future use
  cache; stash; lay away; hive up; hoard.
  

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• verb place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  lock up; shut up; lock; lock in; put away; lock away.
  
  • The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
  • She locked her jewels in the safe

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• verb avert one's gaze
  
  • She looked away when the nurse pricked her arm with the needle

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• adverb by a considerable margin
  far and away; by far.
  
  • she was by far the smartest student
  • it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten

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• verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  decease; give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; kick the bucket; conk; cash in one's chips.
  
  • She died from cancer
  • The children perished in the fire
  • The patient went peacefully
  • The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
• verb go out of existence
  
  • She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away

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• verb work doggedly or persistently
  keep one's shoulder to the wheel; peg away; slog; keep one's nose to the grindstone.
  
  • She keeps plugging away at her dissertation

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• verb waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
  trifle; piddle away; wanton; piddle.
  

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• verb lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
  waste; languish.
  
  • After her husband died, she just pined away

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• verb work doggedly or persistently
  keep one's shoulder to the wheel; peg away; slog; keep one's nose to the grindstone.
  
  • She keeps plugging away at her dissertation
• verb persist in working hard
  plug.
  
  • Students must plug away at this problem

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• verb pull back or move away or backward
  retire; recede; pull back; move back; withdraw; draw back; retreat.
  
  • The enemy withdrew
  • The limo pulled away from the curb

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• verb push out of the way
  push aside.
  

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• verb place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  lock up; shut up; lock; lock in; put away; lock away.
  
  • The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
  • She locked her jewels in the safe
• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; cast out; put away; discard; toss out.
  
  • Put away your worries
• verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; immure; gaol; jail; imprison; put behind bars.
  
  • The suspects were imprisoned without trial
  • the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
• verb stop using
  put aside.
  
  • the children were told to put away their toys
  • the students put away their notebooks
• verb kill gently, as with an injection
  put to sleep.
  
  • the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep
• verb eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
  tuck in; put away.
  
  • My son tucked in a whole pizza
• verb turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily
  put aside.
  
  • it's time for you to put away childish things

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• verb substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of
  rationalise away.
  
  • you can rationalize away all the strange noises you hear--there is no poltergeist in the house!

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• verb substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of
  rationalise away.
  
  • you can rationalize away all the strange noises you hear--there is no poltergeist in the house!

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• verb ride away on a horse, for example
  ride off.
  

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• adverb without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening
  straightaway; forthwith; like a shot; at once; straight off; directly; immediately; now; instantly.
  
  • he answered immediately
  • found an answer straightaway
  • an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith
  • Come here now!
• adverb at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence)
  promptly.
  
  • he promptly forgot the address

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• at once; straightway; without delay. Colloq. U.S. "We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off." D. Webster.

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• verb flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  lam; run; head for the hills; hightail it; bunk; take to the woods; scarper; escape; fly the coop; break away; scat; turn tail.
  
  • If you see this man, run!
  • The burglars escaped before the police showed up
• verb escape from the control of
  
  • Industry is running away with us all

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• noun the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be
  

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• verb depart in a hurry
  rush off.
  

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• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  salt away; put in; stack away; hive away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

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• verb cause to lose courage
  scare off; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
  
  • dashed by the refusal

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• verb stop associating with
  drop; send packing; dismiss.
  
  • They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock
• verb terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  give the axe; give the sack; fire; dismiss; terminate; displace; sack; give notice; force out; can.
  
  • The boss fired his secretary today
  • The company terminated 25% of its workers

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• verb drive away by crying `shoo!'
  shoo off; shoo.
  

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• verb place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
  lock up; shut up; lock; lock in; put away; lock away.
  
  • The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend
  • She locked her jewels in the safe

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• verb avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task
  
  • I shy away from this task

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• verb formally assign ownership of
  sign over.
  
  • She signed away her rights

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• verb leave furtively and stealthily
  sneak away; sneak out; slip away; sneak off.
  
  • The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard
• verb pass by
  elapse; go along; lapse; go by; glide by; slip by; pass; slide by.
  
  • three years elapsed

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• verb leave furtively and stealthily
  sneak away; sneak out; slip away; sneak off.
  
  • The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard

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• verb carry off mysteriously; as if by magic
  spirit off.
  
• verb carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously
  

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• (Law), causing to leave; the offense of inducing a witness to leave a jurisdiction so as to evade process requiring attendance at trial.

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• verb put (things or places) in order
  straighten out; tidy up; tidy; straighten; clean up; neaten.
  
  • Tidy up your room!

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• verb save up as for future use
  cache; stash; lay away; hive up; hoard.
  

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• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  salt away; put in; stack away; hive away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

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• verb keep or lay aside for future use
  salt away; put in; stack away; hive away; lay in; store.
  
  • store grain for the winter
  • The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat

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• verb stay clear of, avoid
  keep one's eyes off; stand back; keep one's hands off; keep one's distance.
  
  • Keep your hands off my wife!
  • Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous

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• verb leave furtively and stealthily
  sneak away; sneak out; slip away; sneak off.
  
  • The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard

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• verb hide aboard a ship or a plane to get free transportation
  
  • The illegal immigrants stowed away on board the freighter

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• verb eliminate completely and without a trace
  wipe out.
  
  • The old values have been wiped out
• verb overwhelm emotionally
  sweep off.
  
  • Her swept her away

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• verb remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
  bear off; carry away; carry off; bear away.
  
  • Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands
  • The car carried us off to the meeting
  • I'll take you away on a holiday
  • I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry
• verb remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
  withdraw; take; remove.
  
  • remove a threat
  • remove a wrapper
  • Remove the dirty dishes from the table
  • take the gun from your pocket
  • This machine withdraws heat from the environment
• verb take out or remove
  take out.
  
  • take out the chicken after adding the vegetables
• verb take from a person or place
  
  • We took the abused child away from its parents
• verb buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
  take out.
  
  • We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook
• verb get rid of something abstract
  remove.
  
  • The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage
  • God takes away your sins
• verb take away a part from; diminish
  detract.
  
  • His bad manners detract from his good character

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• adjective satellite of or involving food to be taken and eaten off the premises
  takeout.
  
  • takeout pizza
  • the takeout counter
  • `take-away' is chiefly British

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• verb rip off violently and forcefully
  tear off.
  
  • The passing bus tore off her side mirror

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• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; cast out; put away; discard; toss out.
  
  • Put away your worries
• verb get rid of
  shake off; shed; throw off; drop; cast off; cast; throw.
  
  • he shed his image as a pushy boss
  • shed your clothes

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• noun getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
  discard.
  

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• adjective satellite thrown away
  discarded; cast-off; throwaway.
  
  • wearing someone's cast-off clothes
  • throwaway children living on the streets
  • salvaged some thrown-away furniture

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• to dispose of in a bargain; usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate."

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• (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind.

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• to win the prize at a race where the prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something. Fuller.

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• to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. Colloq.

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• to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat.

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• to disengage one's self abruptly; to come or go away against resistance.

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• to remove, as with a brush or brushing motion.

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• . (a) (Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast. (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation.

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• . (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak.

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• to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.

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• to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange.

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• to part or depart .

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• etc., to pass in revery or inaction; to spend in idle vagaries; as, to dream away an hour; to dream through life. " Why does Antony dream out his hours?"

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• (Naut.), to slacken a rope gradually.

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• (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.

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• to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away."

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• . (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?" Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly." Addison.

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• (Naut.), to break loose; to roll slide to leeward.

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• to reject; to discard.

  Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak.

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• to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

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• to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.

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• to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.

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• to make over to another; to transfer.

  Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. Atterbury.

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• to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. Colloq.

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• . (a) To drive away by laughter; as, to laugh away regret . (b) To waste in hilarity . "Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune." Shak.

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• . (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy . Obs.

  If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. Burton.

  (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. Obs. Waller.

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• . (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate . (c) To kill; to destroy.
• . (a) To kill or destroy. (b) To carry off.

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• to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away." 2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am." Tennyson.
• to spend; to waste. "Lest she pass away the flower of her age." Ecclus. xlii. 9. (b) to die

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• to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away.

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• . (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce .

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• to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance.

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• . (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or elopement. (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs away with a carriage.

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• to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

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• to drive away by frightening.

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• to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time.

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• to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." Dryden.

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• to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

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• . (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money. (b) To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.

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• to push away; to reject.

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• . (a) To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. (b) To depart; to remove. (c) To avert one's face.

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• . (a) To dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant. (b) To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil.

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• (Naut.), to let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.

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• to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay.

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• to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. Colloq.

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• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; cast out; put away; discard; toss out.
  
  • Put away your worries

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• verb spend wastefully
  trifle away; wanton.
  
  • wanton one's money away

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• verb eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
  tuck in; put away.
  
  • My son tucked in a whole pizza

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• verb move so as not face somebody or something
  
• verb turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
  bend; deflect.
  
• verb refuse entrance or membership
  refuse; turn down; reject.
  
  • They turned away hundreds of fans
  • Black people were often rejected by country clubs
• verb turn away or aside
  avert.
  
  • They averted their eyes when the King entered

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• noun deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
  avoidance; shunning; dodging.
  

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• verb go away from
  walk off.
  
  • The actor walked off before he got his cue
  • I got annoyed and just walked off

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• verb waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
  trifle; piddle away; wanton; piddle.
  
• verb spend wastefully
  trifle away; wanton.
  
  • wanton one's money away

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• verb eliminate
  
  • wash away all the differences
• verb remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
  wash; wash out; wash off.
  
  • he washed the dirt from his coat
  • The nurse washed away the blood
  • Can you wash away the spots on the windows?
  • he managed to wash out the stains

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• noun a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  atrophy; wasting.
  

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• verb cut away in small pieces
  wear away; whittle down.
  
• verb diminish, as by friction
  wear off.
  
  • Erosion wore away the surface
• verb become ground down or deteriorate
  eat at; gnaw; erode; gnaw at.
  
  • Her confidence eroded

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• noun (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
  wearing; eating away; eroding; erosion.
  

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• (Naut.), in what direction; as, where away is the land?

Webster 1913

• verb spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
  get through.
  

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• verb take away quickly and suddenly
  whisk off.
  

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• verb cut away in small pieces
  wear away; whittle down.
  

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• verb remove by wiping
  wipe off.
  

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• verb talk incessantly and tiresomely
  yack; jaw; yack away; rattle on.
  

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• verb talk incessantly and tiresomely
  yack; jaw; yack away; rattle on.
  

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