🗑️ To remove 👀 At a distance 🌫️ To disappear 📦 To store ✈️ Not present 🔄 Continuously 🏟️ At opponent's place ⚾ Outside pitch

away

∞ 1.0

To remove something so you no longer have it, for example by giving or throwing it

adverb
/əˈweɪ/

: fuera

I told him to stay away from that corner.
throw away
take away
give away

Yeah, I try to lean away from like heavy production.

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Examples

Please move that chair away from the table to make more space.
Signs warning potential divers to stay away have been posted by INAH.

Academic text (2011)
And I can tell you straight away, it's fast.
Well, getting up, like you say right away and moving, just moving.
You two can still walk away from this.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Yeah, I was living with my sister, but I knew I needed to take control of my life and get away.

Return to Sender (2022)
We are seeing people moving away from console.
Makes those good smells go away.

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
The reader will come away from an hour of Googling with a lot of information.

Academic text (2011)
Do you think that they have steered you away from vices?

Synonyms

off

vsaway

∞ 1.0

Away from a place or position

focuses on movement to a different place rather than just separation

Antonyms

near

∞ 1.0

At a short distance in space or time

present

518 1.0

Being in a place or at an event

Idioms

right away

915 1.0

Without any delay

a mile away

161 2.8

At a distance of one mile or very easy to notice

far far away

Literature

41 6.7

In a place you cannot get to easily, often used in stories

to throw away the key

Informal

18 8.8

Put someone in prison for life with no hope of release

far and away

16 3.7

By a lot more than others

worlds away

Informal

16 6.8

Very different in life, feeling, or situation

from a mile away

Informal

11 3.6

Easy to see or notice even from far away

to dance the night away

Informal

7 4.4

To spend a long time moving to music until very late at night

to give away the store

Informal

3 8.1

Agree to too much in a deal and lose money

away with you

3 9.6

To tell someone to leave in a rude, angry way

to walk away without a scratch

2 4.2

Leave a dangerous situation without getting hurt

up and away

Informal

1 4.6

Started well and now moving forward quickly

away with the fairies

1 9.9

Being lost in pleasant daydreams and not paying attention

over the hills and far away

Literature

1 8.1

To travel to a distant place to find adventure

to take one's breath away

Informal

1 4.1

Make someone feel very surprised and unable to speak

to chase away the gloom

1 5.5

Make someone feel less sad and more cheerful

to bear away the bell

Archaic

9.9

Win first place in a competition

as far away as Timbuktu

Informal

8.4

Extremely far away and hard to reach or get

away with someone

9.9

Tells someone angrily to go away

to lock him up and throw away the key

Informal

9.5

Put someone in prison and never let them out

to ride hard and put away wet

Archaic

9.9

To be extremely tired and worn after hard work or rough treatment

out and away

6.2

Far better than the others

Compounds

take away

38 3.2

The main point to remember from a talk or meeting

going away

26 3.2

Leaving a place or people to live somewhere else for a long time

home away from home

20 2.9

A place where you feel as comfortable and relaxed as in your own house

away game

9 2.7

A sports match played at the other team's stadium

take-away

6 3.5

The most important idea you learn from a talk or meeting

turning away

4 5.8

Choosing to avoid someone or to stop something from happening

running away

2 3.8

Leaving home or another place without permission when you should stay

take-away

1 2.3

Food prepared to be eaten somewhere else, not in the shop

breaking away

1 5.0

An act of leaving a group suddenly to be on your own

wasting away

1 7.5

Parts of the body slowly become smaller because of disease or lack of use

fading away

1 3.8

A slow loss of brightness, sound, or strength until almost gone

haul-away

1 4.9

Ready for a pickup service to take away

wearing away

Specialized

1 5.1

Slow loss of a surface by water, wind, or rubbing

eating away

4.9

Slow wearing away of something by natural forces or repeated harm

haul-away

3.4

A service that takes away unwanted items

haul-away

4.1

A truck that takes away waste and unwanted items

throwing away

2.6

Getting rid of things you do not want

Surface Forms

away positive

Etymology

Away comes from an old form made of a- ('from' or 'on') and way ('way' or 'road'), so think 'on the way out'. That's why to give or throw something away means to move it from here to another place.