from
- adposition
- /frʌm/
- Keep us all safe from hurt, harm and danger.
- protect from
- away from
- exclude from
What do you think prevents people from being bold?
- What do you think prevents people from being bold?
- So then we hide from it and it grows.
- It's noisy and it's distracting, and it blinds you from seeing red flags.
- And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying.
- In other words, to stop you from being bored.
- You could just back away slowly from that environment.
- A head is banded in black to blot light from eye from the eyes.
- So I would disappear from them at theme parks.
- And it also helps distance ourselves a little bit from, well, Facebook.
Examples
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The people we have to stay away from, vote against, and protect our children from?
Academic text (2011) -
- Hey, now, you kids get away from that wheel.
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I told him to stay away from that corner.
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Uh, let's move away from the door.
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We travelled by night and kept away from villages.
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They're keeping us away from him.
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Uther created the knights to protect this kingdom from those who wished to destroy it.
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Doctors advise pregnant women to stay away from peanuts to avoid dangerous allergies in their babies.
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Keep us all safe from hurt, harm and danger.
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It's just a relief to get away from the office and the stress.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
A team or person loses an almost certain win in the final minute because of a mistake
Children often look and behave like their parents
- Informal
To stop acting like you are better than other people
- Informal
Get sent to many different places by other people without getting help
To understand how someone thinks and feels about a situation
- Informal
In a direct and honest way without hiding feelings or opinions
To make people like you a lot by being pleasant and persuasive
- Slang
Very strong and hard to break, said as a joke about an imaginary material
- Informal
A strong feeling of being less worried after telling someone about a problem
Compounds
The right not to suffer torture or very harsh treatment by the government
- Formal
The right to be treated fairly no matter a person's race or sex
Right to stop police from searching you or taking your things without a good reason
The right to refuse to answer questions that could show you committed a crime
- Specialized
The average distance of each number from the group's average
- Literature
Numbers taken away from Gryffindor's score as punishment for bad behavior
- Informal
Direct and honest in speech that does not hide what you think
Surface Forms
Etymology
From comes from the old English word fram, which meant 'away' or 'forward'. That sense of keeping distance helps explain why from is used to show keeping something out or away from another thing.