away
/əˈweɪ/ adjective C2- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. · The master is away from home on a course.· Would you pick up my mail while I'm away.
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. · He's miles away by now.· Spring is still a month away.
- Not on one's home territory. · This is the entrance for away supporters.· Next, they are playing away in Dallas.
- Out. · Two men away in the bottom of the ninth.
- Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
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So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy.
“And then,” said Madame de Villefort, endeavoring by a struggle, and with effort, to get away from her thoughts, “however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God.
The bride blushed, while Fernand, restless and uneasy, seemed to start at every fresh sound, and from time to time wiped away the large drops of perspiration that gathered on his brow.
“Yes, yes, I know how good a son you are, so now hasten away to see your father.
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