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English Dictionary: Away |
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2 results for Away |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- away
- adv
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is
obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
Synonym(s): away, off, forth
- from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
Synonym(s): away, out
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
Synonym(s): aside, away
- out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
- at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century"
Synonym(s): off, away
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
- freely or at will; "fire away!"
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"
- in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"
Synonym(s): away, aside
- in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"
Synonym(s): aside, by, away
- adj
- not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you
must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"
- used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"
Antonym(s): home(a)
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"
Synonym(s): away, outside
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Away \A*way"\, adv. [AS. aweg, anweg, onweg; on on + weg way.]
1. From a place; hence.
The sound is going away. --Shak.
Have me away, for I am sore wounded. --2 Chron.
xxxv. 23.
2. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from
home.
3. Aside; off; in another direction.
The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun.
--Lockyer.
4. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
Be near me when I fade away. --Tennyson.
5. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go
or come away; begone; take away.
And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. --Exod.
xix. 24.
6. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as,
sing away. [Colloq.]
Note: It is much used in phrases signifying moving or going
from; as, go away, run away, etc.; all signifying
departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes
without the verb; as, whither away so fast ? [bd]Love
hath wings, and will away.[b8] --Waller. It serves to
modify the sense of certain verbs by adding that of
removal, loss, parting with, etc.; as, to throw away;
to trifle away; to squander away, etc. Sometimes it has
merely an intensive force; as, to blaze away.
{Away with}, bear, abide. [Obs. or Archaic] [bd]The calling
of assemblies, I can not away with.[b8] (--Isa. i. 13), i.
e., [bd]I can not bear or endure [it].[b8]
{Away with} one, signifies, take him away. [bd]Away with him,
crucify him.[b8] --John xix. 15.
{To make away with}.
(a) To kill or destroy.
(b) To carry off.
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