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Away   /əwˈeɪ/   Listen
adverb
Away  adv.  
1.
From a place; hence. "The sound is going away." "Have me away, for I am sore wounded."
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."
4.
From a state or condition of being; out of existence. "Be near me when I fade away."
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."
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? "Love hath wings, and will away." 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) "The calling of assemblies, I can not away with." (), i. e., "I can not bear or endure (it)."
Away with one, signifies, take him away. "Away with him, crucify him."
To make away with.
(a)
To kill or destroy.
(b)
To carry off.





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— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie
... up the hillside. We'll get some goldenrod. I'd like to have a chat with you. I may go away—I mean I'm thinking of making a ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... infinitude of vegetables, which it renders a proper and comfortable nourishment. In passing the Alps at the Col de Tende, where they are mere masses of rock, wherever there happens to be a little soil, there are a number of olive trees, and a village supported by them. Take away these trees, and the same ground, in corn, would not support a single family. A pound of oil, which can be bought for three or four pence sterling, is equivalent to many pounds of flesh, by the quantity of vegetables it will ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... the dawn of modern history, of the history of Europe in the form in which we know it to-day. The old order was in a state of liquidation. The mediaeval ideal, described by Dante, of a universal monarchy with two aspects, spiritual and temporal, and two heads, emperor and pope, was passing away. Its place was taken by the modern but narrower ideal of separate polities, each pursuing its own course, independent of, and often in conflict with, other societies. Unity gave way to diversity of tongues, of churches, of ...
— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard


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