Away you go! Definition
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away
adverb
- 1. From one place, position, person or time towards another; off.
- Thesaurus: out, off, forth, hence.
- Example: put the books away
- Example: fade away
- Example: stay away from the bustle of the city
- Example: talk away
- Thesaurus: continuously, on and on, without stopping, constantly, endlessly, continually, without rest, without end, without break; Antonym: briefly, momentarily, for a while.
- Example: looked away
- Example: Any questions? Ask away!
9. Used with verbs such as while, fritter, sleep: wastefully; idly.
- Example: whiled away his days smoking and drinking
- Example: frittered away her money on expensive clothes
- 1. Not present; not at home.
2. Distant.
- Example: not far away
- Thesaurus: removed, absent, not present, distant, not here, out, apart, remote, far off, off; Antonym: here, present, at hand.
- Example: away game
- 1. A match played or won by a team playing on their opponent's ground.
- Distracted; mad; doolally.
- An expression of disbelief
- Example: Away you go! You never ate all that ice-cream yourself!
- euphemistic
To kill them.
- Example: hired a contract killer to do away with her husband
- To stop or to get rid of it.
- Example: Let's do away with the small talk and get down to business
- Thesaurus: eliminate, get rid of, reject, discard, end.
- Immediately.
- Example: got promoted straight away
