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go away

British  

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to leave, as when starting from home on holiday

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go away Idioms  

  1. Depart, leave a place, travel somewhere. For example, They went away this morning, or Are you going away this winter? This expression also can be used as an imperative ordering someone to leave: Go away! It can also be used figuratively to mean “disappear,” as in This fever just doesn't go away. [c. 1200]

Example Sentences

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"Have one place for chargers... so when the phones go away, they go on the charger and that's it."

From BBC

“A lot of these new operators are going to start going away,” Saoud said.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the people living there did not go away, she said, they just moved their tents elsewhere in the neighborhood — or went underground.

From Los Angeles Times

Building a fence around the problem and wishing it goes away isn’t the answer.

From The Wall Street Journal

All he wants, he says, is for the lawsuit to go away.

From Los Angeles Times

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