GO AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go away mean? 

• GO AWAY (verb)
  The verb GO AWAY has 4 senses:

1. move away from a place into another direction

2. go away from a place

3. become invisible or unnoticeable

4. get lost, as without warning or explanation

  Familiarity information: GO AWAY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move away from a place into another direction

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

depart; go; go away

Context example:

The train departs at noon

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

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

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

blow; shove along; shove off (leave; informal or rude)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go away from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

go away; go forth; leave

Context example:

The ship leaves at midnight

Verb group:

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

depart; leave; pull up stakes (remove oneself from an association with or participation in)

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

abandon; empty; vacate (leave behind empty; move out of)

slip away; sneak away; sneak off; sneak out; steal away (leave furtively and stealthily)

break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)

rush away; rush off (depart in a hurry)

get out; pull out (move out or away)

walk out (leave abruptly, often in protest or anger)

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)

linger; tarry (leave slowly and hesitantly)

go out (take the field)

ride away; ride off (ride away on a horse, for example)

beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out (leave suddenly and as if in a hurry)

bugger off; buzz off; fuck off; get; scram (leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form)

decamp; skip; vamoose (leave suddenly)

come away (leave in a certain condition)

walk away; walk off (go away from)

pop off (leave quickly)

depart; quit; take leave (go away or leave)

desert (leave behind)

go out (leave the house to go somewhere)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue go away

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become invisible or unnoticeable

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

disappear; go away; vanish

Context example:

The effect vanished when day broke

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

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

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

dematerialise; dematerialize (become immaterial; disappear)

clear (go away or disappear)

bob under (disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The moon will soon go away

Sense 4

Meaning:

Get lost, as without warning or explanation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disappear; go away; vanish

Context example:

He disappeared without a trace

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

fall (go as if by falling)

die (disappear or come to an end)

go (be abolished or discarded)

absent; remove (go away or leave)

blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off (disappear gradually)

fade; wither (lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)

skip town; take a powder (disappear without notifying anyone (idiom))

die off; die out (become extinct)

desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)

fall away; fall off (diminish in size or intensity)

Sentence frames:

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

Sentence example:

These cars won't go away

 Context examples 

Kindly turn round and motion to him to go away.

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

She was speaking very slowly, her eyes warm and fluttery and melting, a soft flush on her cheeks that did not go away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now you won't mind if I go away slow?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They go away in the fall, so I must soon begin to lay in a supply of meat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The boy had become afraid; he called and cried after him: “Oh, wild man, do not go away, or I shall be beaten!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was that night after you left me, when I implored you to let me go away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I must go away and do my work alone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I wisht they'd spring up a bunch of moose or something, an' go away an' leave us alone," Bill said.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I kissed her, and my baby brother, and was very sorry then; but not sorry to go away, for the gulf between us was there, and the parting was there, every day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some adhesions go away by themselves.

(Adhesions, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)