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KJV Dictionary Definition: away

away

AWA'Y, adv. See Way.

1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

Have me away, for I am wounded. 2Chron. 35.

2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away, send away, run away, &c.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.

Love hath wings and will away.

3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away, that is, be gone, or let us go. "Away with him." Take him away.

4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,

To throw away, to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.

To trifle away, to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.

To drink away, to squander away, &c., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.

To make away, is to kill or destroy.

5. Away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, "I cannot away with it." Isa. 1. The sense is, "I cannot bear or endure it."