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35 Phrasal Verbs With Away – Definitions & Examples

August 17, 2019 by Wes

Below is a list of phrasal verbs using the particle Away.

35 Phrasal Verbs With Away -(Definitions & Examples)

Back Away

  • Meaning: To remove oneself from a situation by backing up or moving backward
  • Use in a sentence: After he noticed the mean dog on the porch, he slowly backed away from the house.

Bang Away

  • Meaning: To do something in a persistent manner. To strike repeatedly
  • Use in a sentence: He was up all night banging away at his keyboard.

Blast Away

  • Meaning #1: to produce an extremely loud noise
  • Meaning #2: to shoot a gun or weapon continuously
  • Use in a sentence #1: She looked out the window to see where the music was coming from and she saw some young kids blasting away on their guitars.
  • Use in a sentence #2: They pulled out their weapons and begin blasting away.

Blow Away

  • Meaning: To carry someone or something by means of the wind
  • Use in a sentence: The wind was so strong it blew away his hat.

Blow (Someone) Away

  • Meaning: (slang) To kill with a gun or an explosive device
  • Use in a sentence: Two gang members were blown away in the gunfight last night.

Break Away

  • Meaning: to escape from someone’s hold, to get away; to escape. To separate oneself from a group of people.
  • Use in a sentence: The group of young people broke away from their parents.

Carry Away

  • Meaning #1: to take or steal something. To remove by force.
  • Meaning #2: to lose control of oneself, usually because of excitement.
  • Use in sentence #1: While in line at the airport, we didn’t realize that somebody had carried away our luggage.
  • Use in sentence #2: Sorry, I got a little carried away when we were talking about photography. It’s just that I love taking pictures.

Chase Away

  • Meaning: to drive someone away from something. It can be used both in a literal sense of a figurative sense
  • Use in a sentence: The dog chased away all the birds in the yard.

Chip Away (at)

  • Meaning: to divide a big task into smaller more manageable sized tasks.
  • Use in a sentence: By working on the project during our free time on the weekends, we were able to chip away at it little by little.

Do Away With

  • Meaning #1: to end or remove something
  • Meaning #2: to kill
  • Use in a sentence #1: The company decided to do away with free parking in an effort to save money.
  • Use in a sentence #2: In the movie, the gang leader asked him to do away with the hero.

Fade Away

  • Meaning: To slowly diminish or become less noticeable.
  • Use in a sentence: The background music started to fade away.

Fall Away

  • Meaning: To distance oneself from something or someone.
  • Use in a sentence: He used to be a strong believer in the bible, but recently he is starting to fall away from his beliefs.

Fire Away

  • Meaning #1: to begin talking or to begin asking questions
  • Meaning #2: to shoot a person quickly
  • Use in a sentence #1: The second I entered the office, she started firing away questions at me.
  • Use in a sentence #2: He started firing away arrows, hoping at least one of them would hit the target.

Get Away

  • Meaning #1: to escape something: evade
  • Meaning #2: to distance oneself from someone or something
  • Meaning # 3: to go on vacation
  • Use in a sentence #1: The bank robbers were able to get away in their car.
  • Use in a sentence #2: Get away from the stove, it is hot!
  • Use in a sentence #3: We need to get away for the weekend.

Give Away

  • Meaning #1: to donate something to someone usually because you don’t want it or no longer need it
  • Meaning #2: to reveal something about someone
  • Use in a sentence #1: I gave away my shoes because they no longer fit.
  • Use in a sentence #2: He was talking so loud, he gave away our location.

Go Away

  • Meaning: to leave
  • Use in a sentence: He told me that he is going away for 2 weeks, but he will be back before the meeting.

Keep Away

  • Meaning: to stop using or doing something; avoid
  • Use in a sentence: Little did I know that I was allergic to cats, so the doctor told me to keep away from them.

Melt Away

  • Meaning: to go from a solid form to a liquid form; to lessen
  • Use in a sentence: I am surprised at how fast the snow melted away, Spring is definitely around the corner.

Put Away

  • Meaning #1: to store something in its designated location
  • Meaning #2: to send someone to jail; usually for a long time
  • Use in a sentence #2: The first thing I did when I got home was put away the groceries.
  • Use in a sentence #2: After a crime like that, I hope they put him away for good.

Run Away

  • Meaning: to leave a situation because you aren’t happy or you no longer want to deal with it.
  • Use in a sentence: He seriously thought about running away from home.

Run Away With

  • Meaning #1: to secretly leave with someone to either live with them or marry them
  • Meaning #2: to steal
  • Use in a sentence #1: He ran off with his ex-girlfriend.
  • Use in a sentence #2: The young children ran off with my wallet.

Send (someone or something) Away

  • Meaning: to ask someone to leave
  • Use in a sentence: I was so angry that I sent him away before he could tell me what happened.

Slave Away

  • Meaning: to work very hard at something
  • Use in a sentence: Your mother has been slaving away for hours in the kitchen to make you a good meal.

Stay Away

  • Meaning: to maintain a safe distance from something or someone; to not go near
  • Use in a sentence: Stay away from the edge of the water, otherwise, you could fall in.

Store Away

  • Meaning: to hide or store something for use in the future
  • Use in a sentence: She has been storing away money for a long time in order to buy a new car.

Take Away

  • Meaning: to remove something from someone
  • Use in a sentence: I took the dog’s toy away because it was making too much noise.

Tear Away

  • Meaning: to quickly pull something away, usually by force
  • Use in a sentence: I had a hard time tearing the kids away from the TV, but they need to do their homework.

Throw Away

  • Meaning: to dispose of something
  • Use in a sentence: I threw away my old shoes because they had huge holes in them.

Tuck Away

  • Meaning: to hide something in a safe place; to store
  • Use in a sentence: I bet they have tucked away a lot of money over the years.

Turn Away

  • Meaning #1: to move one’s body in the opposite direction
  • Meaning #2: to dismiss or to reject
  • Use in a sentence #1: Please don’t turn away, I am talking to you.
  • Use in a sentence #2: The store ran out of supplies, so they had to turn away customers.

Walk Away

  • Meaning: to withdraw oneself from a situation or problem
  • Use in a sentence: If someone wants to pick a fight, it is often best to just walk away from the situation.

Wash Away

  • Meaning: to be removed or to be carried away by water.
  • Use in a sentence: The floodwaters washed away much of the small village.

Waste Away

  • Meaning: to lose strength and energy; to become sick and weak
  • Use in a sentence: It made him sad to see his loved one wasting away.

Whisk Away

  • Meaning: To remove someone or something from a place very quickly
  • Use in a sentence: I wish my husband would whisk me away to Hawaii for a long weekend.

Wipe Away

  • Meaning: to remove by wiping; to clean
  • Use in a sentence: He wiped away her tears.

Did we miss one? Please let us know in the comments section below.

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