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go away

1. (dismissal) A command demanding someone to leave.

   Go away! Stop annoying me!

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go away (third-person singular simple present goes away, present participle going away, simple past went away, past participle gone away)

1. To depart or leave a place.

   I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.

   • 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

     Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away

   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

     My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!

2. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.

   Are you going away this year?

3. (euphemistic) 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.

   • 2023 October 18, Noel Dolphin, “Climate resilience in an era of budget cuts”, in RAIL, number 994, page 38:

     But the need for modern, reliable, frequent and clean modes of transport has never gone away.

• (to depart): See Thesaurus:leave
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• (to vanish):

• sell in May and go away

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