AWAY

Meanings:

1. Indicates distance or separation. If something is away, it is usually far from us out of reach. ‘I’m afraid Ms Green is away this week. She’s attending a conference in Lima’.

Be away, keep away, stay away

2. Conveys the idea of leaving, departing or withdrawing. I watched the boat sailing away, until it was just a speck on the horizon’.

Back away, come away, draw away, drive away, fly away, get away, go away, move away, pull away, run away, sail away, sneak away, speed away, tear away, walk away

3. To cause something or somebody to leave; to detach them, or to cause them to remain at a distance. ‘The police handcuffed the man and led him away’.

Call away, carry away, drive away, hold away, keep away, kick away, lead away, push away, send away, take away, tear away, tow away.

4. To express or to cause loss, waste, disappearance, removal, or destruction. ‘Those expenses are eating away at our savings’.

Clear away, die away, do away (with), eat away (at), explain away, fade away, fall away, file away, fritter away, gamble away, give away, idle away, laugh away, laze away, make away (with), melt away, pass away, put away, sign away, take away, throw away, waste away, while away.

5. In a different direction. ‘She looked away when she walked past the scene of the accident’.

Break away, move away, turn away.

6. Here, away indicates that an activity is sustained intently for a long period of time, or that it continues, instead o stopping. ‘We talked away until the early hours of the morning’.

Fire away, hammer away at, plug away at, work away.

7. Other meanings of away. ‘Right -  I’m ready to listen to your complaint. Fire away!.

File away, get away with, get carried away, give away, put away, stow away.