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go away |
1. interj. (dismissal) Command asking someone to leave. |
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Go away! Stop annoying me! |
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2. v. To depart or leave a place. |
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I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back. |
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3. v. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation. |
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Are you going away this year? |
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4. v. To vanish or disappear. |
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As you get closer the haze goes away. |
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This cold just won't go away. |
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go |
1. v. To move: |
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2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like |
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Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs |
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3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m |
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Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. |
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away |
1. adv. From a place, hence. |
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He went away on vacation. |
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2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction. |
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3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence. |
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4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away. |
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