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away
[ uh-wey ]
adverb
- from this or that place; off:
to go away.
- aside; to another place; in another direction:
to turn your eyes away; to turn away customers
- far; apart:
away back; away from the subject.
- out of one's possession or use:
to give money away.
- out of existence or notice; into extinction:
to fade away; to idle away the morning.
- incessantly or relentlessly; repeatedly:
He kept hammering away.
- without hesitation:
Fire away.
adjective
- absent; gone:
to be away from home.
- distant:
six miles away.
- immediately off and on the way:
The order was given and he was away.
- Sports. played in a ball park, arena, or the like, other than the one that is or is assumed to be the center of operations of a team: Compare home ( def ).
winners in their last three away games.
- Baseball. having been put out:
with two away in the top of the seventh.
- Golf.
- (of a golf ball) lying farthest from the hole.
- (of a golfer) having hit such a ball and being required to play first.
verb phrase
- to get rid of; abolish; stop.
- to kill:
Bluebeard did away with all his wives.
away
/ əˈɱɪ /
adverb
- from a particular place; off
to swim away
- in or to another, usual, or proper place
to put toys away
- apart; at a distance
to keep away from strangers
- out of existence
the music faded away
- indicating motion, displacement, transfer, etc, from a normal or proper place, from a person's own possession, etc
to give away money
to turn one's head away
- indicating activity that is wasteful or designed to get rid of something
to sleep away the hours
- continuously
fire away
laughing away
- away witha command for a person to go or be removed
away with you
away with him to prison!
- far and awayby a very great margin
far and away the biggest meal he'd ever eaten
- from awayfrom a part of Canada other than Newfoundland
adjective
- not present
away from school
- distant
he is a good way away
- having started; released
bombs away!
he was away before sunrise
- also prenominal sport played on an opponent's ground
an away game
- golf (of a ball or player) farthest from the hole
- baseball (of a player) having been put out
- horse racing relating to the outward portion or first half of a race
noun
- sport a game played or won at an opponent's ground
interjection
- an expression of dismissal
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of away1
Idioms and Phrases
- where away? (of something sighted from a ship) in which direction? where?
- away with,
- take away:
Away with him!
- go away! leave!:
Away with you!
More idioms and phrases containing away
see back away ; bang away ; blow away ; break away ; by far (and away) ; carry away ; cart off (away) ; cast away ; clear out (away) ; die away ; do away with ; draw away ; eat away ; explain away ; fade out (away) ; fall away ; fire away ; fool away ; fritter away ; get away ; get away with ; give away ; go away ; hammer away ; lay aside (away) ; make away with ; out and away ; pass away ; peg away at ; piss away ; plug away at ; pull away ; put away ; right away ; run away ; run away with ; salt away ; send away ; shy away from ; slink away ; slip out (away) ; sock away ; spirit away ; square away ; squirrel away ; stow away ; take away from ; take one's breath away ; tear away ; throw away ; tuck away ; turn away ; walk away from ; walk off (away) with ; waste away ; wear off (away) ; whale away ; when the cat's away ; while away .Example Sentences
There is Citizen Bull, who has the unfortunate first post, and Rodriguez, who isn’t too far away in the fourth post.
Route 101 that routinely flood during exceptionally high king tides, Dura said, “and places like that could be kind of a hot spot for seeing flooding right away after the subsidence” following a mega-earthquake.
It said it would build more guardrails to increase transparency, and refine the system itself "to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy".
Somalia is yet to comment on the ban which comes as Taiwan, a self-ruled island claimed by China, boosts ties with Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia 34 years ago, but remains mostly unrecognised internationally.
They also called some of the backlash a "smear campaign" and said it was: "a transparent effort to derail the real conversation" away from their messages of "love" and support for Palestine.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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