COME AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come away mean? 

• COME AWAY (verb)
  The verb COME AWAY has 2 senses:

1. come to be detached

2. leave in a certain condition

  Familiarity information: COME AWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to be detached

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come away; come off; detach

Context example:

His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery

Hypernyms (to "come away" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come away"):

blow off (come off due to an explosion or other strong force)

chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)

unsolder (remove the soldering from)

fall off (come off)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leave in a certain condition

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

She came away angry

Hypernyms (to "come away" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

"Come!" she said, "come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my husband who is, I know, coming towards us."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I giv the promise to Em'ly, afore I come away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Come away—oh, come away up to the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, for all my care, things were not merry in the house, and I thought it well to come away.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pushed his way in, seized me in his mighty arms, hugged me in his bear’s embrace, covered me with kisses, and implored me to come away with him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come away, Hawkins, he would say; come and have a yarn with John.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

William did not like she should come away; he had told her he should miss her very much indeed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Come away, Massas, come away!" he cried, his eyes starting from his head.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't eat much supper, and come away at eleven when I send Hannah for you."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)