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English Dictionary: away	by the DICT Development Group
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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away adv from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Away \Away"\, 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.