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go away

British  

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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She gives her mother pushback or tells her to go away.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

“We keep a Fifth Fleet headquarters there, and the question is probably not does that go away, but what does it look like when this is over?” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

And the biggest plague, the one that never seems to go away, is deep-seated resentment for, often outright hostility to, mothers and the work of parenting.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026

"We used to go away and hide… not to upset the parents," Gaynor told them.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

It comforted me to know that these visions, too, would go away with time.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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