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go away

verb
  1. To depart or leave a place. · I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.
  2. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation. · Will you be going away at the weekend?· Are you going away this year?
  3. To go to prison to be incarcerated. · If you get caught, you're going away for a long time.
  4. To vanish or disappear. · As you get closer the haze goes away.· This cold just won't go away.
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“When the house is emptied of people,” said Nagaina to her husband, “he will have to go away, and then the garden will be our own again.
The Jungle Book, p. 74 · B2
Give me the last of my eggs, and I will go away and never come back,” she said, lowering her hood.
The Jungle Book, p. 81 · B2
“Yes, you will go away, and you will never come back.
The Jungle Book, p. 81 · B2
But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 123 · C1

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