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Go away   /goʊ əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Go away

verb
1.
Move away from a place into another direction.  Synonyms: depart, go.  "The train departs at noon"
2.
Go away from a place.  Synonyms: go forth, leave.  "She didn't leave until midnight" , "The ship leaves at midnight"
3.
Become invisible or unnoticeable.  Synonyms: disappear, vanish.
4.
Get lost, as without warning or explanation.  Synonyms: disappear, vanish.






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"Go away" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter was written. Until this Unknown makes himself known, the letter as an evidence points rather to premeditated suicide than to the contrary. Oh, if I could only have seen the body! They tell me the pistol was found some little distance from the body. Is it at all likely that a murderer would go away leaving such evidence behind him? If Graumaun had killed Siders in a hasty quarrel, he might possibly, in his excitement, have left his revolver. But I have already disposed of this possibility. A man of sufficient ...
— The Case of the Registered Letter • Augusta Groner

... me over," she cried. "Oh, will you go away? I'll stick you with my needle! I certainly will! Keep your long tail out of my face! Oh, how can I see to do anything? Will you go away? I'll hit you as sure as I ...
— Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country • Joel Chandler Harris

... delighted to know how times are there & was to glad to, know if we could get some one to pass us away from here to a better land. We work but cant get scarcely any thing for it & they dont want us to go away & there is not much of anything here to do & nothing for it. Please find some one that need this kind of a people & send at once for us. We dont want anything but our wareing and bed clothes & have not got no money to get away from here with ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... matter how hard he whip that horse it wouldn't move; instid he rared and kicked and jumped about and almost turned the buggy over. The gal in the buggy fainted. Finally a old slavery time man come along and told him to git a quart of whiskey and pour it around the buggy and the hant would go away. So they done that and the sperit let 'em pass. If a hant laked whisky in they lifetime, and you pour it round where they's at, ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration

... "That she wouldn't want to put it off, for it had been a-layin' round for several years, and she felt that she wouldn't go away so fur from home, ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley


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