Definition of -away in English English dictionary
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"
- To be away to a place means to go there I'm away to my work Away! is used to indicate disbelief or surprise Away wi ye! is used to indicate contempt for a person or dismissal of what they have said Someone who is away wi it is very drunk Away and is used in many expressions of dismissal Away and chase yourself! Away and bile yer heid!
- The furthest ball from the hole This ball should be played first
- aside: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
- in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"
- out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H E Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
- A trade, quote, or market that does not originate with the dealer in question, e g , ``the bid is 98-10 away from me ''
- ad not near
- If you move away from a person or a place, you move so you are no longer near to them - You can say that places and objects or people are a certain distance away from each other
- away(p): not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests"
- from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
- Is an IRC command used to set display an away message i e /away be back in a bit : [B]
- off: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century"
- from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
- Away from the frontal plane (when the arm is in front of the body) or towards the frontal plane (when the arm is behind the body)
- far from the ball
- freely or at will; "fire away!"
- farthest from the hole Example: John's drive was the shortest so he was away to hit his second shot
- The away ball is that which is furthest from the hole when more than one golfer is playing It usually is played first
- in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"
- indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"
- aside: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nestegg tucked away for a rainy day"
- the opposite side of the field to the home side
- used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"
- so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
- farthest from the hole Example: The player who is away plays first
- The player farther from the hole whose turn it is to play
- away(p): distant in either space or time; "the town is a mile away"; "a country far away"; "the game is a week away"
- "Bombs away " -
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Apples are healthy and stave off illness
- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Eat healthy and you won't get sick
- ate away
- Simple past of eat away
- away
- Absent; gone; at a distance
The master is away from home.
- away
- To release
Anchors away!.
- away
- By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away
- away
- From a place; hence
Go away!.
- away
- At a distance in time or space
While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- away
- Traveling; on vacation
- away
- Not here; gone
- away
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence
- away
- Unavailable
- away
- Aside; off; in another direction
- away
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away
- away game
- An athletic contest played in the opposing team's geographic area
- away games
- plural form of away game
- away side
- away team
- away sides
- plural form of away side
- away team
- The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home
He found no differences between home and away team performances when spectators cheered before the start of a play.
- away teams
- plural form of away team
- away with the fairies
- not with it, dreaming, not all there
Hobday was wild, mad, and totally away with the fairies.
- back away
- To move in a direction opposite where one is facing, keeping some (or most) of your attention on the thing in front being avoided
- bang away
- to strike or hit repeatedly
bang away on the drums.
- bang away
- to constantly and irritatingly talk (about)
My folks keep banging away at me to study harder.
- bang away
- to work tirelessly
I've been banging away at the essay for ages, but it still isn't finished.
- bat away
- To knock an object, usually a ball
The ball can still be batted away with one or both hands. It can be batted from a player's hands or batted away during a shot.
- bat away
- To avoid by diverting the focus of a discussion
For his part, Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary - asked about the impact of US energy policies on food prices on Friday - tried to bat away the question.
- bats away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bat away
- batted away
- Simple past tense and past participle of bat away
- batting away
- Present participle of bat away
- beaver away
- To busily undertake a large task
She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis.
- beavering away
- Present participle of beaver away
- blast away
- To destroy by blasting explosives
- blast away
- to continue shooting rapidly
They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.
- blew away
- Simple past of blow away
- blow away
- To kill (someone) by shooting them
The kid just blew the clerk away.
- blow away
- To cause to go away by blowing
He blew away the dust which had collected on the book.
- blow away
- To disperse or to depart on currents of air
I didn't have to rake. The leaves just blew away.
- blow away
- To flabbergast; to impress greatly
The critics were blown away by their latest album.
- blowing away
- Present participle of blow away
- blown away
- Past participle of blow away
- blows away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blow away
- break away
- to leave suddenly
- break away
- to become separated, literally or figuratively
- carried away
- Made excessively emotional or excited
- carry away
- to break under sudden pressure of violent wind
- cast away
- To discard
She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
- cast away
- To abandon or maroon
The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
- casting away
- Present participle of cast away
- casts away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cast away
- chuck away
- To discard, or throw away
This shirt has just about had it. I think I'll chuck it away.
- do away with
- To destroy, eliminate, or make an end of
In most countries, homework has come to be an integral part of the schooling system. So much so that parents are suspicious when schools do away with homework.
- draw away
- To move away
She looked at me and then turned and glanced at my arm about her, and then she seemed quite suddenly to realize the scantiness of her apparel and drew away, covering her face with her palms and blushing furiously.
- drive away
- To depart by driving a vehicle
- drive away
- To force someone or something to leave
- driven away
- Past participle of drive away
- driven away
- Forced to leave
- eat away
- Gradually to erode or corrode
The river bank had been eaten away over the years by the flood water.
- eaten away
- Past participle of eat away
- eating away
- Present participle of eat away
- eats away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eat away
- explain away
- To dismiss or minimize by explanation, especially with regard to problems
He couldn't just explain away all of his problems.
- explained away
- Simple past tense and past participle of explain away
- explaining away
- Present participle of explain away
- explains away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain away
- fade away
- To lose strength, become weaker; to wane
I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!.
- fall away
- To cease to support a person or cause
- far and away
- By a large degree or margin; greatly
Their formatting and organization is far and away better than their closest rival.
- fend away
- To turn something away; to ward off
She fended away his eager hands.
- fetch away
- To move off, come loose; to go off suddenly away (from) a given position
Some miles before the Arab fort the road fetches away inland from the coast and to reach the oasis one must swerve aside off the tarmac .
- file away
- To store in a file
Would you help me file away these reports?.
- fire away
- To begin to talk or present information quickly
- fire away
- To begin shooting at an enemy
- fired away
- Simple past tense and past participle of fire away
- fires away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fire away
- firing away
- Present participle of fire away
- fool away
- to waste, squander
- fritter away
- To squander or waste
I had been frittering away my money, too, on luxuries.
- frittered away
- Simple past tense and past participle of fritter away
- frittering away
- Present participle of fritter away
- fritters away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fritter away
- gave away
- Simple past of give away
- get away
- To start moving; to depart
The train got away exactly on time.
- get away
- (with to when used with an object) To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday
Next weekend we're hoping to get away to the seaside.
- get away
- To move away (from)
Get away from me!.
- get away
- Expressing disbelief
You bought that for twenty pounds? Get away!.
- get away
- (with from when used with an object) To avoid capture; to escape (from)
I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.
- get away
- To slip from one's control
I can't cope any more. Things are getting away from me.
- get away
- Sarcastically express disbelief, often to indicate that another's statement was obvious
Get away.
- get away with
- To do something which is prohibited, forbidden or generally not allowed, and not be punished for the action
Our teacher’s so strict, he'd never let us get away with anything in class.
- get away with
- To avoid doing something, or to avoid the consequences of not doing something
He thought he could get away with not doing any work..
- get away with murder
- To do something bad or illegal and not be punished
2005:He said I found out about everything he did and said, 'I can't get away with nothing, and Jim can get away with murder.' I don't think that I let any of my kids get away with murder, and I don't think any one of them ever did much serious mischief. — (Can we this quote?) James M. Hill, Sr., I Have Been Blessed!: Hard Work and Happiness, Aforesight Press, ISBN 0977485994, page 205:.
- get carried away
- To become excessively involved, to take something too far
It was nice of him to write a poem for his new girlfriend, but shooting a full-length film is getting carried away.
- get one's end away
- To have sex
- give away
- To make a gift of (something)
I didn't like that book, so I gave it away.
- give away
- To relinquish control over
It was a risk: Editors like to control magazine content .
- give away
- To unintentionally reveal a secret, or expose someone
He gave away his hiding place when he accidentally sneezed.
- give away
- To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc
Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round.
- give away
- To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father
Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony?.
- give away the store
- To transact, trade, or negotiate badly, by paying, providing, or conceding too much to the other party
Bush's tax plan offers next to nothing to average Americans, while giving away the store to multimillionaires, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
- give the store away
- Alternative form of give away the store
- give-away shop
- A shop where people can bring and take goods without paying or getting paid
- give-away shops
- plural form of give-away shop
- given away
- Past participle of give away
- gives away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of give away
- giving away
- Past participle of give away
- glance away
- intransitive: To look at something else briefly, then look back again
When I told him the truth, he glanced away, and then replied.
- go away
- To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation
- go away
- Command asking someone to leave them alone
- go away
- To depart or leave a place
- go away
- To become invisible, vanish or disappear
- go-away bird
- The grey lourie. Corythaixoides concolor
- going away dress
- A semi-formal dress, worn by a bride when leaving the reception for her honeymoon
- home away from home
- A place in which one is as comfortable as one's actual home
- keep away from
- To evade
He tried to keep away from his pursuers.
- keep away from
- To avoid
He tried to keep away from danger.
- keep away from
- To deny access to
He tried to keep him away from his daughter.
- keep-away
- A child's game in which players throw a ball or other similar object so as to prevent a selected player from catching it. When the selected player catches the thrown object, he or she trades places with whoever threw it in a manner that allowed it to be caught
- lock away
- to lock up; to lock in a safe place
- make away
- To destroy
- make away
- To kill
- make away
- To get rid of, dispose of
Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’.
- make away
- To kill oneself, commit suicide
Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of Epist. obscurorum vivorum, so to heart, that for shame and grief he made away himself.
- make away
- To depart, leave; to make off
- make away with
- to transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate
- make away with
- to steal
- melt away
- To fade or wane
It came at last. The sky lightened, the mist melted away, and then a long, low, far-off streak of pale yellow light floated on the eastern horizon.
- pack away
- to store away, place out of the way, or stash, especially for the longer term
She packed away her warm sweaters for the summer.
- pack away
- to eat a great deal (informal)
Have you ever seen someone pack away five hot dogs in one sitting?.
- pass away
- To die
He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.
- passed away
- Simple past tense and past participle of pass away. (to die)
- passes away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pass away. (to die)
- passing away
- Present participle of pass away. (to die)
- piss away
- To spend wastefully
The old mayor pissed millions of dollars away on stuff nobody wanted.
- plug away
- To persist or continue, as with an effort
He kept plugging away at the work until it was done.
- pull away
- To move ahead
Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers.
- put away
- To divorce
And the pharyses cam and axed hym a question: whether it were laufull for a man to putt awaye hys wyfe.
- put away
- To store, add to one's stores for later use
Preparing for the worst, they put away food for the winter.
- put away
- To discard, divest oneself of
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
- put away
- To fend off, deflect; to dismiss
A sayd the kynge, syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit, and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture.
- put away
- To take a large lead in a game
- put away
- To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner
- put away
- To strike out a batter
- put away
- To consume (food or drink), especially in large quantities
You wouldn't think such a small person could put away so much food.
- put away
- To send (someone) to prison
He was convicted and they put him away for 10 years.
- put away
- To place out of the way, clean up
I put the clothes away so as to neaten the room.
- ran away
- Simple past of run away
- ridden hard and put away wet
- Mistreated; not properly cared for
Alexandra collapsed onto the leather couch in the library, feeling as if she were a horse who had just been ridden hard and put away wet.
- right away
- Very soon; quickly; immediately
This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.
- run away
- To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile
The little boy was unhappy about having to take a bath every day and decided to run away from home.
- run away
- To flee by running
The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
- run away with
- To be misled by imagining that one's desires can come true
He allowed his emotions to run away with him.
- run away with
- To leave secretly with another person. Usually with the intention of getting married or of living together against the wishes of the family
- running away
- Present participle of run away
- runs away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of run away
- send away
- To send to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc
We are going to send our son away to live with his uncle in America for a year.
- send away
- To dismiss from one's presence
The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away.
- send away for
- To write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing
You can send away for a brochure about this hotel, if you like.
- sending away
- Present participle of send away
- sending away for
- Present participle of send away for
- sends away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of send away
- sends away for
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of send away for
- sent away
- Simple past of send away
- sent away
- Past participle of send away
- sent away for
- Past participle of send away for
- sent away for
- Simple past of send away for
- shied away
- Simple past tense and past participle of shy away
- shied away from
- Simple past tense and past participle of shy away from
- shies away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shy away
- shies away from
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shy away from
- shy away
- to draw back in fear, cringe, back down
They may shy away if witnesses of law officers try to approach. —A Situation Report on Our Acquisition of Advanced Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures by O.H. Krill.
- shy away from
- to avoid, evade
- shying away
- Present participle of shy away
- shying away from
- Present participle of shy away from
- slave away
- to work very hard
It’s just the socially approved ones that transfer wealth from men to women, like slaving away in a corporate hellhole and buying dinner at expensive restaurants, that don’t raise the shaming hackles of banal, unreconstructed feminists like McArdle.
- slip away
- To disappear
When Liverpool scored a third goal, their hopes of winning slipped away forever.
- slip away
- to pass quickly, almost unnoticed
The months slipped away and became years.
- slip away
- To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed
I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.
- slip away
- To die
He slipped away quietly in his sleep.
- sneak away
- To leave a place, or a meeting, without being seen or heard
I'm going to try to sneak away from work early, if I can.
- spirit away
- To remove without anyone's noticing
The paintings were spirited away under cover of darkness.
- spirited away
- Simple past tense and past participle of spirit away
- spiriting away
- Present participle of spirit away
- spirits away
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spirit away
- square away
- To finish, complete, tidy or put in order
I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job.
- squirrel away
- To stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply, so as to recall a squirrel's burying of nuts
He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits squirreled away throughout his garage.
- steal away
- to leave secretively
- straight away
- Very soon; quickly; immediately
This item is urgent, so please start on it straight away.
- strip away
- To remove something bit by bit
The government has stripped away some of our basic rights by passing a series of controversial laws.
- strip away
- To ignore a factor which obscures the reality
If you strip away the hype, you find that he is just an ordinary person trying to make a living, like everyone else.
- tail away
- To gradually subside or diminish; to tail off
