Definitions for away

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away a·way

Spelling: [uh-wey]

IPA: /əˈweɪ/

Away is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in away (aawy).

Definitions for away

Idioms

1. away with, take away: go away! leave!:
2. where away?, (of something sighted from a ship) in which direction? where?

adverb

1. from this or that place; off:
2. aside; to another place; in another direction: .
3. far; apart:
4. out of one's possession or use:
5. out of existence or notice; into extinction:
6. incessantly or relentlessly; repeatedly:
7. without hesitation:

adjective

1. absent; gone:
2. distant:
3. immediately off and on the way:
4. 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 15).
5. Baseball. having been put out:
6. 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 phrases

1. do away with, to get rid of; abolish; stop. to kill:

Origin of away

before 950; Middle English; Old English aweg, reduction of on weg. See on, a-¹, way¹

Examples for away

Tibble saw that he was like one in another world, and gently led him away.

So Uncle Peter had to lick her father and two brothers before he could get her away.

Doubling down on Schedule I is, at best, a deranged way to push Americans away from “medical,” and toward recreational, use.

My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

He would not look at it, and when I threw it close to him he dashed it away as if it was poison.

So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

At last this lively maiden got Philip away from the rest, and began to cross-question him.

Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.

Sophisticated, nuanced, melodious pop music, that sweeps you away.

Tilly was to have gone also at that time, but had found it impossible to get away.