AWAY

adv.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

2.
adv.

Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

3.
adv.

Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer.

4.
adv.

From a state or condition of being; out of existence. Be near me when I fade away. Tennyson.

5.
adv.

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24.

6.
adv.

On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]


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