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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AWA'Y, adv. [See Way.]
1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
Have me away, for I am wounded. 2 Chronicles 35.
2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away, send away, run away, etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.
Love hath wings and will away.
3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away, that is, be gone, or let us go. "Away with him." Take him away.
4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,
To throw away, to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.
To trifle away, to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.
To drink away, to squander away, etc., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.
To make away, is to kill or destroy.
5. Away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, "I cannot away with it." Isaiah 1. The sense is, "I cannot bear or endure it."

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"
2: used of an opponent's ground; "an away game" [ant: home]
3: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch" [syn: away, outside] adv
1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth]
2: from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away, out]
3: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn: aside, away]
4: out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
5: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century" [syn: off, away]
6: indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"
7: so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
8: freely or at will; "fire away!"
9: in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away"
10: in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away" [syn: away, aside]
11: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside, by, away]

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: before 12th century 1. on the way ; along <get away early> 2. from this or that place <go away> 3. a. in a secure place or manner <locked away> b. in another direction <look away> 4. out of existence ; to an end <echoes dying away> 5. from one's possession <gave away a fortune> 6. steadily onward ; uninterruptedly <clocks ticking away> 7. by a long distance or interval ; far <away back in 1910> II. adjective Date: 14th century 1. absent from a place ; gone <away for the weekend> 2. distant in space or time <a lake 10 miles away> <the season is two months away> 3. played on an opponent's grounds <home and away games> 4. baseball out <two away in the ninth> • awayness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv., adj., & n. --adv. 1 to or at a distance from the place, person, or thing in question (go away; give away; look away; they are away; 5 miles away). 2 towards or into non-existence (sounds die away; explain it away; idled their time away). 3 constantly, persistently, continuously (work away; laugh away). 4 without delay (ask away). --adj. Sport played on an opponent's ground etc. (away match; away win). --n. Sport an away match or win. Phrases and idioms: away with (as imper.) take away; let us be rid of. Etymology: OE onweg, aweg on one's way f. A(2) + WAY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Away A*way", adv. [AS. aweg, anweg, onweg; on on + weg way.] 1. From a place; hence. The sound is going away. --Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. --2 Chron. xxxv. 23. 2. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home. 3. Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. --Lockyer. 4. From a state or condition of being; out of existence. Be near me when I fade away. --Tennyson. 5. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. --Exod. xix. 24. 6. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.] Note: It is much used in phrases signifying moving or going from; as, go away, run away, etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast ? ``Love hath wings, and will away.'' --Waller. It serves to modify the sense of certain verbs by adding that of removal, loss, parting with, etc.; as, to throw away; to trifle away; to squander away, etc. Sometimes it has merely an intensive force; as, to blaze away. Away with, bear, abide. [Obs. or Archaic] ``The calling of assemblies, I can not away with.'' (--Isa. i. 13), i. e., ``I can not bear or endure [it].'' Away with one, signifies, take him away. ``Away with him, crucify him.'' --John xix. 15. To make away with. (a) To kill or destroy. (b) To carry off.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: 'Away' is often used with verbs of movement, such as 'go' and 'drive', and also in phrasal verbs such as 'do away with' and 'fade away'. 1. If someone or something moves or is moved away from a place, they move or are moved so that they are no longer there. If you are away from a place, you are not in the place where people expect you to be. An injured policeman was led away by colleagues... He walked away from his car... She drove away before either of them could speak again... Jason was away on a business trip... ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV prep 2. If you look or turn away from something, you move your head so that you are no longer looking at it. She quickly looked away and stared down at her hands... As he stands up, he turns his face away from her so that she won't see his tears. ADV: ADV after v, oft ADV prep 3. If you put or tidy something away, you put it where it should be. If you hide someone or something away, you put them in a place where nobody can see them or find them. I put my journal away and prepared for bed... All her letters were carefully filed away in folders... I have $100m hidden away where no one will ever find it. ADV: ADV after v 4. If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place. The two women were sitting as far away from each other as possible... ...country estate thirty miles away from town. PREP-PHRASE 5. You use away to talk about future events. For example, if an event is a week away, it will happen after a week. ...the Washington summit, now only just over two weeks away... ADV: be amount ADV 6. When a sports team plays away, it plays on its opponents' ground. ...a sensational 4-3 victory for the team playing away. ADV: ADV after v • Away is also an adjective. Charlton are about to play an important away match. ADJ: ADJ n 7. You can use away to say that something slowly disappears, becomes less significant, or changes so that it is no longer the same. So much snow has already melted away... His voice died away in a whisper... ADV: ADV after v 8. You use away to show that there has been a change or development from one state or situation to another. There's been a dramatic shift away from traditional careers towards business and commerce. ADV: ADV after v, n ADV, oft ADV prep 9. You can use away to emphasize a continuous or repeated action. He would often be working away on his word processor late into the night... ADV: ADV after v [emphasis] 10. You use away to show that something is removed. The waitress whipped the plate away and put down my bill... ADV: ADV after v 11. far and away: see far right away: see right

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present. 2. Begone, let us go. See avaunt.

Moby Thesaurus

a rebours, a reculons, absconded, absent, afar, against the grain, aloof, anticlockwise, apart, arear, aside, ass-backwards, astern, asunder, at a distance, at once, back, backward, backwards, counterclockwise, deleted, departed, directly, disappeared, distal, distant, distantly, elsewhere, elsewhither, exotic, expeditiously, extinct, far, far off, faraway, forth, forthwith, fro, gone, gone away, hence, hindward, hindwards, immediately, in juxtaposition, in reverse, instanter, instantly, lacking, long-distance, long-range, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, missing, momentarily, nearby, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not here, not present, now, off, omitted, on one side, on the side, out, out of sight, over, past and gone, promptly, pronto, punctually, quickly, rearward, rearwards, remote, remotely, removed, retrad, right, right away, right off, separated, sidelong, somewhere else, speedily, straight, straightway, subtracted, swiftly, taken away, thence, therefrom, thereof, to one side, to the side, vanished, wanting, whence, widdershins, wide apart, wide away