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
- When the boy fell asleep, she would creep away, and _away_!
- Geáta leóde, _men of the Geátas, come from afar, have been brought hither_ (by ship), 361. ôð-ferian, _to tear away, to take away_: pret. sg.
- Gēata lēode, _men of the Gēatas, come from afar, have been brought hither_ (by ship), 361. oð-ferian, _to tear away, to take away_: pret. sg.
- I thought of Dahmer's father on TV, wiping tears away with a sleeve, walking away from the camera, holding an open palm up like a crossing guard, STOP.
- Obama\'s reaction, which was given through an interview with George Stephanopoulos, as translated by Paul Krugman today is: In short, \ "Run away, run away\"!
- And if the parties to it try to bind it, the more chains, fastenings, pledges and agreements they put upon it, the sooner and quicker will it escape from all its holdings and fly away and _stay away_!
- I. unsôfte þonan feorh ôð-ferede, 2142. of-ferian, _to carry off, to take away, to tear away_: pret. ôðer swylc ût offerede, _took away another such_ (sc. fifteen), 1584. fetel-hilt, st. n., _sword-hilt_, with the gold chains fastened to it: acc.
- I. unsōfte þonan feorh oð-ferede, 2142. of-ferian, _to carry off, to take away, to tear away_: pret. ōðer swylc ūt offerede, _took away another such_ (sc. fifteen), 1584. fetel-hilt, st. n., _sword-hilt_, with the gold chains fastened to it: acc.
- 'Born in the USA, don't take our parents away' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Born in the USA, don\'t take our parents away\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Martin Andrade, 40, is a security officer from Chicago and is originally from Michoacan, Mexico.
- Paul proclaim, "If any man be in Christ Jesus and is a new creature, old limits are passed away, behold all things have become new;" for his ungodly baptised hearers are all new creatures by baptism, and yet their old sinful habits _have not passed away_, and all things have not become new to them.
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