go away
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
(LEAVE)
B1 to leave a place:
Go away and leave me alone!
B1 to leave your home in order to spend time somewhere else, usually for a holiday:
We usually go away for the summer.
He goes away on business a lot.
More examples
- She's gone away for six months, but strangely/oddly/funnily enough , her boyfriend doesn't seem too unhappy about it.
- I really didn't want to go away this weekend but, oh well, it can't be helped.
- It's just possible that we might be going away that weekend.
- We left our dog in kennels when we went away on holiday.
- I really missed her when she went away.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- run
- run away
- sally
- track
- walk off (somewhere)
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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(DISAPPEAR)
to disappear:
It was weeks before the bruises went away.
More examples
- The smell went away when he opened the window.
- Her nerves gradually went away as the performance continued.
- The immediate risk of contamination has gone away now.
- I can't get that buzzing noise to go away. Where's it coming from?
- This icon keeps appearing on the screen. How do I make it go away?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Appearing & disappearing
- act
- bubble up
- come up
- conjure
- creep
- disappear off the face of the earth idiom
- do a disappearing/vanishing act idiom
- emerge
- emergence
- erupt
- evaporate
- face
- manifestation
- melt
- pop
- puff
- pull
- pull sth up
- spring
- wither
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