away
IPA: ʌwˈeɪ
verb
- (intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.
adjective
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
- (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
- (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- Misspelling of aweigh. [Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor.]
adverb
- From a place, hence.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- Without restraint.
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Examples of "away" in Sentences
- The entries will then whizz away.
- Harry sneaks out of the circle and away from the fire.
- Mort is forced to stow away on the outside of the plane.
- He runs outside and tries to take the kite away from Chubby.
- Some country bumpkin all the way out there away from urban culture.
- The boys flee the saloon, and scurry away to hideout outside of town.
- She attempts to seduce and cajole Oliver out of the tape and away from Hope.
- He accosts the new away team, and toys with each of them out of sheer cruelty.
- In desperation the group broke out of the prison and fled away from the troops.
- The smelting process was often carried out away from the rest of the community.