Dictionary entry details
• GO AWAY (verb)
Meaning:
Move away from a place into another direction
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
depart; go away; go
Context examples:
Go away before I start to cry / The train departs at noon
Hypernyms (to "go away" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go away"):
blow; shove along; shove off (leave; informal or rude)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Go away from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
leave; go forth; go away
Context examples:
At what time does your train leave? / She didn't leave until midnight / The ship leaves at midnight
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go away"):
abandon; empty; vacate (leave behind empty; move out of)
slip away; sneak away; sneak off; sneak out; steal away (leave furtively and stealthily)
break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)
rush away; rush off (depart in a hurry)
get out; pull out (move out or away)
depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)
linger; tarry (leave slowly and hesitantly)
go out (take the field)
ride away; ride off (ride away on a horse, for example)
beetle off; bolt; bolt out; run off; run out (leave suddenly and as if in a hurry)
bugger off; buzz off; fuck off; get; scram (leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form)
go out (leave the house to go somewhere)
depart; quit; take leave (go away or leave)
pop off (leave quickly)
walk away; walk off (go away from)
hightail (leave as fast as possible)
walk out (leave abruptly, often in protest or anger)
come away (leave in a certain condition)
decamp; skip; vamoose (leave suddenly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue go away
Meaning:
Become invisible or unnoticeable
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
The effect vanished when day broke
Hypernyms (to "go away" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go away"):
dematerialise; dematerialize (become immaterial; disappear)
clear (go away or disappear)
bob under (disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The moon will soon go away
Meaning:
Get lost, as without warning or explanation
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disappear; vanish; go away
Context example:
He disappeared without a trace
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go away"):
fall away; fall off (diminish in size or intensity)
die off; die out (become extinct)
skip town; take a powder (disappear without notifying anyone (idiom))
fade; wither (lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)
blow over; evanesce; fade; fleet; pass; pass off (disappear gradually)
absent; remove (go away or leave)
go (be abolished or discarded)
die (disappear or come to an end)
fall (go as if by falling)
desorb (go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
These cars won't go away
