come away
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
If something comes away from something else, it becomes separated from it:
I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle came away in my hand.
The paper has started to come away from the walls.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Separating and dividing
- atomize
- bifurcate
- bifurcation
- bisect
- borderline
- branch
- dismember
- dissociate
- dissociate yourself from sth
- disunite
- divide
- divide/split (sth) down the middle idiom
- drift
- quarter
- ravel
- resolve
- resolve sth into sth
- rive
- riven
- tear 1
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