Synonyms

off forth

Examples

"ran away from the lion" wanted to get away from there" "sent the children away to boarding school" "went off to school" "they drove off" (`forth' is obsolete as in "go forth and preach")

Used in print

You would be surprised how many fans purposely stayed away from Bears_Stadium last year because of the television policy .

Rather , it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate , ethical medical treatment of serious diseases .

Then an ambulance comes_along , and they drive Praisegod_Piepsam away .

Here the pulmonary_vein , as in type 2 , , is noted to draw away from the bronchus , and to follow a more direct , independent course to the hilum ( figs. 23 , 24 ) .

General_manager Pels even suggested that it might be wise to keep the Mexicans in suspense rather_than accept their offers to sell_out and move away , and try to have a_few punished .

Related terms

archaism

Synonyms

out

Examples

"he gave out money to the poor" "gave away the tickets"

Used in print

The orchestra is far enough away from you that you miss the bow scrapes , valve clicks , and other noises incidental_to playing .

Further , the corpuscular_radiation , i.e. , the solar_wind protons , must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust and cause a slow diminution in size , with a resultant increase in both the Poynting-Robertson effect and the ratio of the repulsive_force to the gravitational_force .

In deadly earnest , the besiegers methodically stripped away portions of the roof and tossed lighted rags inside , only to have most stamped_out by the women as_soon_as they hit the floor .

Shot near the heart , he turned to one side and plunged for a door to another room several feet away , three bullets following him .

Far away , standing before a curtained window in the study room , was his father , hands tucked under his coattails , and staring into the dark church .

Synonyms

aside

Examples

"brush the objections aside" "pushed all doubts away"

Used in print

Everything else is closed away .

Feverishly , he tried to brush away this intuition .

O_'_Banion tucked away his gun and walked out of the theatre ; he was neither prosecuted nor even arrested .

When he finally did he had_to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came_in .

The old nightmare which had caused him so many wakeful hours came charging in on him once_more , only this time he could n't pacify it with a sleeping_pill and send it away .

Examples

"the town is a mile away" "a country far away" "the game is a week away"

Used in print

In the third Frank_Robinson hammered a long home_run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center , about 400 feet away , with two men on .

Place flat palms on either side of the head a_few inches away from the ears , fingers pointing toward the shoulders .

I think you could have heard him a mile away , and he was bursting at every seam with importance .

A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden .

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things : Stowey , yes , was on his way south , and the two boys were away in school , and nothing was burning on the stove , and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers .

Related terms

distant

Examples

"the music faded away" "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder "idled the hours away" "her fingernails were worn away"

Used in print

A tsunami in the Hawaiian_Islands in 1869 washed away an entire town ( Ponoluu ) , leaving only two forlorn trees standing where the community had been .

To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie , and this objective required that governmental authority - administrative_officials and judges - be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; that old customs which inhibited trade be abrogated ; that business be free from governmental supervision and notions of morality which might clog the automatic adjustments of the free market ; that obligations of status that were inconsistent with the new politics and the new economics be done away with .

She stayed away for ten days .

Examples

"he worked away at the project for more than a year" "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it"

Used in print

An old gentlemen next to me held a Boy_Scout bugle to his lips and blasted away at every fourth step and during the interim shouted_out , `` V for Victory '' !

Synonyms

off

Examples

"the boat was 5 miles off (or away)" "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)" "away back in the 18th century"

Used in print

Somehow , the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought_home to all_of us the stark , blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home .

Synonyms

gone departed

Examples

"he's away right now" "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away" "everyone is gone now" "the departed guests"

Used in print

The occupants of Apartment Number 3 were probably away for a_few days , and not likely to return on a Friday .

Related terms

absent

Examples

"cleared the mess away" "the rotted wood had to be cut away"

Used in print

Not enough to do away with all doubts , but sufficient to give a fairly accurate picture of the events of the voyage .

Examples

"fire away!

Synonyms

aside by

Examples

"started setting aside money to buy a car" "put something by for her old age" "has a nestegg tucked away for a rainy day"

Examples

"an away game"

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home sport

Examples

"put the toys away "her jewels are locked away in a safe" "filed the letter away"

Synonyms

aside

Examples

"turn aside" "turn away one's face" "glanced away"

Examples

"he didn't leave an away phone number"

Used in print

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom , and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large_numbers from the simple-minded , one minute shows .

But the Blevins were away ; their maid gave him an envelope with a check in it and shut the door .

`` Mr._Flannagan is away '' , she said .

`` Mr._Flannagan has been away for six weeks '' .

He thought first of his son and daughter , away at college .

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out

Synonyms

outside

Examples

"the pitch was away (or wide)" "an outside pitch"

Related terms

baseball inaccurate