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RELATED WORDS : away game back away barter away bear away beaver away blaze away blink away break away breaking away carried away carry away cart away cast away chase away chip away chip away at clear away come away cut away die away do away with draw away dribble away drift away drive away drop away dwindle away dwindling away eat away eating away ebb away fade away fading away fall away far and away file away flow away fool away frighten away fritter away frivol away get away get away with give away go away going away grind away hammer away at haul away have it away hive away home away from home keep away laugh away lay away lock away look away melt away move away out and away pack away pass away peg away piddle away pine away piss away plug away pound away pull away push away put away rationalise away rationalize away ride away right away run away running away rush away salt away scare away send away shoo away shut away shy away from sign away slip away sneak away sock away spirit away square away squirrel away stack away stash away stay away steal away stow away sweep away take away taking away tear away throw away throwing away toss away trifle away tuck away turn away turn away from turning away walk away wanton away wash away waste away wasting away wear away wearing away while away while away the time whisk away whittle away wipe away worn away yack away yap away

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective away has 3 senses

• away(s = adj.all) Array - not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"
Derived form noun awayness₁

• away(a = adj.all) Array - used of an opponent's ground; "an away game"
Antonym: home

• away(s = adj.all) outside - (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch"

Adverbial away has 11 senses

• away(r = adv.all) forth, off - from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead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"
• away(r = adv.all) out - from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets"
• away(r = adv.all) aside - out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
• away(r = adv.all) Array - out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away"
• away(r = adv.all) off - 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"
• away(r = adv.all) Array - 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"
• away(r = adv.all) Array - so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away"
• away(r = adv.all) Array - freely or at will; "fire away!"
• away(r = adv.all) Array - 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"
• away(r = adv.all) aside - in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"
• away(r = adv.all) aside, by - 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"

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THESAURUS

away

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

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Absence

N absence, inexistence, nonresidence, absenteeism, nonattendance, alibi, emptiness, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy, tabula rasa, exemption, hiatus, lipotype, truant, absentee, nobody, nobody present, nobody on earth, not a soul, ame qui vive, absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home, missing, lost, wanting, omitted, nowhere to be found, inexistence, empty, void, vacant, vacuous, untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited, tenantless, barren, sterile, desert, deserted, devoid, uninhabitable, without, minus, nowhere, elsewhere, neither here nor there, in default of, sans, behind one's back, the bird has flown, non est inventus, absence makes the heart grow fonder, absent in body but present in spirit, absento nemo ne nocuisse velit, Achilles absent was Achilles still, aux absents les os, briller par son absence, conspicuous by his absence, in the hope to meet shortly again and make our abs.

Distance

N distance, space, remoteness, farness, far- cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years, distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous, far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away, from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length, distance lends enchantment, it's a long long way to Tipperary, out of sight, out of mind.

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