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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]


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Her lawyer recommended she offer her brothers a settlement from the funds that her mother has left in order to get them to go away, but so far that hasn’t worked.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

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

It didn’t make the fear go away, but it did loosen my limbs.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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