WHISK AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whisk away mean? 

• WHISK AWAY (verb)
  The verb WHISK AWAY has 1 sense:

1. take away quickly and suddenly

  Familiarity information: WHISK AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHISK AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take away quickly and suddenly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

whisk away; whisk off

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

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away (remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I'd better burn the house down, I suppose, than let other people blow themselves up with my gunpowder, she thought as she watched the Demon of the Jura whisk away, a little black cinder with fiery eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)