verb
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To depart; to go to another place.
example
At 9 o'clock sharp he awayed to bed.
adjective
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Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
example
The master is away from home.
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At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
example
He's miles away by now.
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Not on one's home territory.
example
Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
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(following the noun modified) Out.
example
Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
adverb
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From a place, hence.
example
He went away on vacation.
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Aside; off; in another direction.
example
I tried to approach him, but he turned away.
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Aside, so as to discard something.
example
throw away, chuck away, toss away
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At a stated distance in time or space.
example
Christmas is only two weeks away.
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In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
example
I'll dry the dishes and you put them away.
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In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
example
He was shut away in the castle tower for six months.
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From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
example
fade away, die away
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So as to remove or use up something.
example
Please wipe away this spilled drink.
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(as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
example
Away! Be gone! And don't let me see you round here again!
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On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
example
She's been in her room all day, working away at her computer.
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Without restraint.
example
I saw her whaling away at her detractors.
interjection
definition
Come on!; go on!
Examples of away in a Sentence
One wicked witch named Mombi stole him and carried him away, keeping him as a prisoner.
She rolled over on her side away from him.
Finally she pushed away from his embrace.
Matthew turned his face away, fussing.
Seconds literally ticked away on the old grandfather clock in the next room.
He got away again.
Sonya went away by another door.
Sonya did not pull it away, and left off crying.
She pushed away from Alex, removing her hand from her mouth.
Not like I wanted to take him away from the man who had been a Dad to him.
I didn't run away.
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Alex stood and turned away from him, staring out the window.
But Rostov bowed himself away from the doctor and asked the assistant to show him the way.
He shall be taken away--taken away at once, said the assistant hurriedly.
Carmen brushed them away and returned to her prayer.
If this was what defined a vacation away from home, she'd just as soon stay at home.
By the time Norman Borlaug passed away in 2009 at the age of ninety-five, he had become one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal.
They thought that pictures might take one's mind away from things that were better or more useful.
If this is not the case, people will not trade their labor for things that can easily or capriciously be taken away. 3.
A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his estates.
He pulled away from her, propping up on an elbow as he studied her face.
She urged her mount a safe distance away, motioning for Jonathan to follow.
Cupping a hand to her mouth, she turned away from him.
After supper Lisa helped put away the leftovers and wash dishes.
Each had walked away with something.
The Gargoyles roughly pushed them into the opening, where there was a platform, and then flew away and left them.
The ship sailed away and was soon lost to sight.
At last the men mounted, and, as they say in the old songs, away went the steeds with bridles ringing and whips cracking and hounds racing ahead, and away went the champion hunters "with hark and whoop and wild halloo!"
All life seemed to have ebbed away, and even when the sun shone the day was
Not only was Pierre's attempt to speak unsuccessful, but he was rudely interrupted, pushed aside, and people turned away from him as from a common enemy.
His gaze traveled over her face expressionlessly as they danced away from the spot.
Dusty looked at Bianca, not wanting to send her away before talking to her.
One of the chairs pushed back from the table, and this was so astonishing and mysterious that Dorothy was almost tempted to run away in fright.
The words of the cold and moist vegetable Prince were not very comforting, and as he spoke them he turned away and left the enclosure.
We were lucky to get away from those dreadful vegetable people.
Then together they crept away to enter the low doorway of a neighboring dwelling.
He sends soldiers among us to take away our liberty.
As he was starting away, the friendly innkeeper said, "Which way will you travel, Mr. Randolph?"
For this reason many people were glad when he ran away from home and went to sea.
Later, she lay in bed, tucked warmly under the covers as his boots clicked away from her on the hardwood floor - down the hall and into the den.
In the morning she opened her eyes to find Destiny's face only inches away from hers.
What are you taking away?
Finally Alex kissed her neck and released her, stepping away as he spoke.
His gaze wandered away in reflective thought.
In fact she had avoided - even pushed away those who might want to claim close friendship.
He moved away from the tree.
Betsy and I moved away to give mother and daughter space.
So, when he was eighteen years old, he ran away from his pleasant home and went to sea.
They told him that there were beautiful things at home--why go away to see other things less beautiful?