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go away
vb
(intr, adverb) to leave, as when starting from home on holiday
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| Verb | 1. | go away - move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" shove along, shove off, blow - leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!" |
| 2. | go away - go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" go out - leave the house to go somewhere; "We never went out when our children were small" desert - leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period" pop off - leave quickly walk away, walk off - go away from; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off" hightail - leave as fast as possible; "We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in" walk out - leave abruptly, often in protest or anger; "The customer that was not served walked out" come away - leave in a certain condition; "She came away angry" beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out, bolt - leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" go out - take the field; "The soldiers went out on missions" take off, start out, set forth, set off, set out, start, depart, part - leave; "The family took off for Florida" exit, get out, go out, leave - move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country" fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, run, bunk, break away, escape - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" slip away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out, steal away - leave furtively and stealthily; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard" pull up stakes, depart, leave - remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" | |
| 3. |  go away - become invisible or unnoticeable; "The effect vanished when day broke"dematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear clear - go away or disappear; "The fog cleared in the afternoon" bob under - disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" | |
| 4. | go away - get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace" fall - go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts" die - disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!" go - be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, pass off, pass - disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" skip town, take a powder - disappear without notifying anyone (idiom) desorb - go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed |
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go
verb1. To move along a particular course:
Idiom: make one's way.
2. To proceed in a specified direction:
3. To move or proceed away from a place:
Idioms: hit the road, take leave.
4. To look to when in need:
Idioms: fall back on, have recourse to.
5. To proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance:
11. To be depleted:
Idiom: go down the drain.
13. To cease living:
Informal: pop off.
Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end, pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes.
14. To do or fare well:
Slang: score.
Idioms: get somewhere, go great guns, go strong.
16. To put up with:
abide, accept, bear, brook, endure, stand (for), stomach, suffer, support, sustain, swallow, take, tolerate, withstand.
Informal: lump.
Idioms: take it, take it lying down.
17. Informal. To put up as a stake in a game or speculation:
go along
To agree to cooperate or participate:
Informal: play along.
go around
1. To pass around but not through:
2. To become known far and wide:
Idiom: go the rounds.
go at
1. To set upon with violent force:
Informal: light into, pitch into.
go away
1. To move or proceed away from a place:
Idioms: hit the road, take leave.
go backphrasal verb
go down
1. To come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily:
Idiom: take a fall.
go farphrasal verb
go for
1. Informal. To be favorably disposed toward:
Idiom: take kindly to.
go in
To come or go into (a place):
Nautical: put in.
Idioms: gain entrance, set foot in.
go off
phrasal verb
go on
1. To be in existence or in a certain state for an indefinitely long time:
2. To continue without halting despite difficulties or setbacks:
Idioms: hang in there, keep going , keep it up.
go outphrasal verb
go over
2. To look at carefully or critically:
Informal: case.
Idiom: give a going-over.
go through
phrasal verb
go under
2. To undergo sudden financial failure:
Informal: fold.
go upphrasal verb
go withnoun
3. A limited, often assigned period of activity, duty, or opportunity:
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Translations
odejítzmizet
gå vækskrubbe af
häipyäpoistua
maknuti seotići
立ち去る
꺼져떠나다
försvinna
เอาออกไปไปให้พ้น, ออกจาก
cút xéora đi
go away
→ إذْهَب!, يُغَادِرُ odejít, zmizet gå væk, skrubbe af verschwinden, weggehen φεύγω irse, largarse häipyä, poistua déguerpir, partir maknuti se, otići andarsene, squagliarsela 立ち去る 꺼져, 떠나다 smeren ('m), weggaan stikke, stikke av odejść, spadać afastar-se, ir embora убираться, уходить försvinna เอาออกไป, ไปให้พ้น, ออกจาก ayak altından çekilmek, yola çıkmak cút xéo, ra đi 走开Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009