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to love away

to love away

8.3
Make someone's pain or fear less by showing care and kindness
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : ahorrar con amor
  • Sometimes a mother’s warmth can love away even the deepest fears in a child.

Examples

  • She tried to love away his sadness by being there for him every day.

  • She can love away all my worries.

  • He hoped that their patience would eventually love away the resentment in the family.

  • He loved away her fears with his kind words.

  • She tried to love away his sadness by being there for him every day.

  • Sometimes a mother’s warmth can love away even the deepest fears in a child.

  • He hoped that their patience would eventually love away the resentment in the family.

Synonyms

to sweep away
vsto love away
7 4.6

To feel very strong emotions that you cannot control

diminishes pain or trouble through kindness and caring actions

Antonyms

to aggravate
73 4.6

Make a problem or health condition worse

to exacerbate
69 8.0

To make a problem or feeling worse

How Comforting

to heal
481 1.2
to love away
8.3
to comfort
172 1.0
to ease
305 2.1

Surface Forms

love away infinitive
loved away past
loved away past participle
loving away present participle
loves away third person singular

Morphology

love + away

The sense is a straightforward composition of 'love' (to show affection) + 'away' (to make disappear); verb+away commonly means 'cause X to go away', so 'love away' = remove worries through love. This is a productive, predictable particle-verb construction rather than an idiom, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Love away shows a clear picture: someone keeps giving kind care until worry or pain slowly goes away. The word love is the caring action and away shows something moving out, so the phrase means 'to remove difficulties or pain by love or kindness'.