go away

verb

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

Idioms and Phrases

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

“We are so far away from anything that looks like coding going away,” he said in an interview.

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"Almost immediately what I felt with the jab is that the food noise went away from me… I really enjoyed not having to think about food so much."

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"I wasn't worried about HIV because I thought it had gone away, because it wasn't in the news as much, and I thought I was an educated person myself."

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"Once something has been rejected... that doesn't mean its going to go away."

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But the tax break isn’t going away; it’s being deferred.

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