AWAY WITH

Definition: AWAY WITH

AWAY WITH

1. Bear, abide. [Obs. or Archaic] ``The calling of assemblies, I can not away with.'' (--Isa. i. 13), i. e., ``I can not bear or endure [it].'' Away with one, signifies, take him away. ``Away with him, crucify him.'' --John xix. 15.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: AWAY WITH

I love you. I don't want to go away with Carl (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

These silly writers let their imaginations run away with them (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Oh you'll probably get away with crucifixion (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

I think you've let him get away with enough, Gov'nor (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Go away with Ed. Take Phil (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

Running away with me. (Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me); performing artist: The Temptations)

Seriously thinking about spirituality and you wouldn't let me get away with (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Breaking away with the beast of both worlds (New Moon on Monday; performing artist: Duran Duran)

And I came away with a different point of view (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

You turned around and walked away with me. (Running Scared; performing artist: Roy Orbison; writing credit: Roy Orbison and Joe Melson)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (1933)

You Can't Get Away with It (1923)

She Ran Away with the City Man (1900)

Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Mystery (2000)

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Books

• Approach an Advertising Agency: And Walk Away With the Job You Want (Here's How) (reference)

• And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon (reference)

• How to Cheat on College Exams & Get Away with It (reference)

• Come Away With Me (Heartland) (reference)

• Curving away with the autumn light : poems (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Come Away with Me (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Malaspina Glacier 6 to 8 miles away with Mt. St. Elias towering over all Mt. St. Elias approximately 30 miles distant. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2) blows an aircraft over her side, 8 May 1942. This is probably the "great explosion" from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that took place just after the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Frederick C. Sherman, left Lexington. At left is the bow of USS Hammann (DD-412), which was backing away with a load of the carrier's survivors on board. This view appears to be cropped from Photo # 80-G-7413. Credit: NAVY.

The lid came clean away with a ripping noise. Credit: Library of Congress.

The bear runs away with the dancing hog. Credit: Library of Congress.

Running away with the whole show. Credit: Library of Congress.

The habeas corpus, or The wild geese flying away with Fox to America. Credit: Library of Congress.

They can do anything we let them get away with : anything -- we let them : Nagasaki Day -- Monday, August 9th, 10 AM, New York Stock Exchange. Credit: Library of Congress.

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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. (reference)

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Mr. Woodhouse talked over his alarms, and Emma was in spirits to persuade them away with all her usual promptitude

Then Clara turned away with a sigh

One little grey bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure, had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing

Such scenes are sometimes sufficient for the soul, and almost do away with thought

Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere

He splashed a floating water bug away with his hand

They gently did away with the street, and the village, and the state in which he lived

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The pain eventually goes away with little or no treatment. (references)

Typically, the chest pain is more severe, lasts longer, and does not go away with rest or with medicine that was previously effective. (references)

These problems won't go away with dialysis, but doctors now have new and better ways to prevent or treat them. You should discuss these complications and treatments with your doctor. (references)

Business

Yet another school of thought is that the Internet will offer a means by which the distribution model itself can be done away with. Dell’s unprecedented success in its direct model of supplying a PC from the manufacturer to the user is a case in point. (references)

Dell has done away with the need of the channel network and, with its success, other companies are also looking at selling over the Net. The advantages of the Net and the increasing pressure to replicate the Dell model could spell doom for the channel players. (references)

In a number of cases certain Russian businesses have not paid foreign equipment suppliers what was owed, perceiving they could avoid making such payments, and, essentially, get away with it by imposing prohibitive costs on their suppliers and creditors in seeking to repossess equipment. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

In December 2000, in a vote heatedly opposed by prodemocracy legislators, the Legislative Council supported the ordinance in its current form by a vote of 36 to 21. Proposed amendments to the Public Order Ordinance include reducing the advance notification period, doing away with the notice of no objection, eliminating "excessive" criminal penalties of up to 5 years in prison, and requiring the police to obtain a court order in order to prohibit a demonstration. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Such restrictions have been done away with. (references)

Honduras

Honduras has also done away with most non-tariff barriers to trade, including import-licensing requirements. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

According to the Sahrawi's daughter, who witnessed the incident, two members of the security forces drove away with her father in a car with Casablanca license plates. (references)

PAKISTAN

Pakistan has done away with a requirement that pharmaceutical firms label the generic name on all products with at least equal prominence as that of the brand name, although they must still display the generic name. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

Effective June 14, 1999 Congress did away with the 16.5 percent wholesale tax and replaced it with a 14.5 percent value added tax. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "AWAY WITH": away with you! ♦ come away with the impression ♦ do away with ♦ get away with ♦ get away with it ♦ get away with smth. ♦ get away with you! ♦ go away with a flea in ♦ have away with ♦ he got away with it ♦ he made away with himself ♦ make away with ♦ make away with oneself ♦ run away with ♦ send away with a flea in one's ear ♦ send away with a flea in the ear ♦ To get away with ♦ To make away with ♦ To run away with ♦ walk away with. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskaf (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get, get rid of, remove), afruim (dispense with, do away with, get, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Albanian

vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), s'pësoj gjë (get away with it), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), dal pa lagur (get away with it, save one's neck). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلت من (get away, get away with smth.), ‏هدم (blight, demolish, demolition, destroy, destruction, do away with, level, pluck, pull down, sap, smash, take apart, tear, tear down, total), ‏نجا من العقاب (get away with it), ‏له طريقته الخاصة (he got away with it), ‏صفى (clarify, clear, close out, colander, comb out, defecate, determine, do away with, filter, filtrate, leach, liquidate, lixiviate, mop up, polish off, refine, run, sell off, strain, uncloud, wipe out), ‏إنتحر (commit suicide, destroy oneself, do away with, make away with oneself, suicide, take one's own life), ‏ألغى (abolish, abort, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, deactivate, dissolve, do away with, eliminate, lift, negate, nullify, obliterate, override, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, scratch, scrub, set aside, spike, stop, undo, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), спечелвам лесно (walk away with), гълтам (absorb, devour, get down, gulp, pouch, run away with, slummock, sup, swallow, swig), открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nip, nobble, pick, pinch, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, steal, walk away with, walk off with), отнасям (blow away, carry away, number, relate, snatch, subsume, take away, take off, walk away with, wash away, whiffle, whip off), махай се (away with you, begone, off with you, sod it, sod off), минавам безнаказано (get away with smth.), забягвам (go bush, run away, run away with), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), премахвам (cut out, delete, do away, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, kill, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), приставам на (run away with), повличам (drag, run away with, swamp, sweep away), изкоренявам (deracinate, do away with, eradicate, exscind, exterminate, extirpate, pluck off, pluck up, root out, root up, unroot, uproot, weed out). (various references)

Chinese 

除 (divide, do away with, except, remove, wipe out), 銷 (to do away with, to melt, to sell), 胡思亂想 (imaginings, let one's imagine run away with one), 不依 (get away with it, not comply, not go along with, not let off easily, not let sb). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), zbavit se èeho (clear off, do away with, get rid of smth., make away with, shift, work off), ujít odplatì (get away with it), skoncovat s èím (be through with smth., do away with), odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, get out, remove, supersede, sweep, take away), odnášet si dojem, že (come away with the impression), mít úspìch (bring home the bacon, get away with it, make it, pan out, score, succeed). (various references)

Danish

afskaffe (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), fjerne (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Dutch

afschaffen (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), wegdoen (dispense with, dispose of, do away with, get rid of, remove, sell, vend), verwýderen (dispense with, do away with, eliminate, get rid of, remove), uitmaken (accomodate, account for, constitute, decide, dispense with, do away with, end, extinguish, finish, get rid of, make up, put out, remove, terminate), opdoeken (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), elimineren (dispense with, do away with, eliminate, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Esperanto

forigi (do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Faeroese

beina burtur (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, put away, remove, store, throw away, turn away). (various references)

Finnish

riemastua (be carried away with joy, rejoice), raivata tieltä (clear out of the way, do away with), poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, strike out, take out, withdraw, write off), päästä kuin koira veräjästä (get away with it), ottaa hengiltä (bump off, do away with), livahtaa kuin koira veräjästä (get away with it). (various references)

French

supprimer (do away with, take away). (various references)

Frisian

ôftankje (discard, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), ôfskaffe (abolish, abrogate, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

German

Glauben Sie es bloß nicht. (Don't run away with the idea.), abschaffen (abolish, disestablish, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, suppress, to abolish, to suppress). (various references)

Greek 

καταργώ (abolish, abrogate, annul, do away with, negate, nullify, quash, repeal, rescind), καταλύω τη μοναρχία (do away with), γλιτώνω (come through, get away with, save), ξεφύγω (get away, get away with it), μένω ατιμώρητος με (get away with), τα σκάω μαζί (run away with). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחסל (annihilate, do away with, eliminate, liquidate, scotch, wipe out), ל�"תאב�" (commit suicide, make away with oneself, take one's own life), ל�"חלץ מעו� ש (get away with it). (various references)

Hungarian

mars innen! (away with you!, be off!). (various references)

Indonesian

mencuatkan (flip, push away with a spring motion, spring back). (various references)

Italian

abolire (abolish, abrogate, do away with, lift, put down), cavarsela (contrive, get away with, manage, scrape along, scrape by, scrape through). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遣っつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off), 遣っ付ける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off), 罷り通る (to get away with, to go by, to let pass), 置き引き (walking away with another's baggage), 拐う　 (to carry off, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash), 拐う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with), �"�う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おきびき (walking away with another's baggage), まかりとおる (to get away with, to go by, to let pass), さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away), やっつける (to attack, to beat, to do away with, to finish off). (various references)

Pig Latin

awayay ithway.(various references)

Portuguese

afastar (alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, displace, distract, diverge, divert, do away with, eliminate, estrange, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean, withdraw), vá embora! (away with you!, off!), suicidar-se (make away with oneself, take one's own life), roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), livrar-se de (claw off, do away with, get rid of, leave out, make away with, shake off), fugir com (make away with), fugir (abscond, bolt, break away, bunk, decamp, disject, disperse, dodge, elope, elude, escape, flee, fleet, get away, get away with, lam, make off, retreat, run, run away, scoot, up and away), escapar (bypass, come off, dodge, escape, evade, flee, get away, get away with, leave out, omit, overlook, run away, run off), dar cabo de (do away with), banir (ban, banish, cast out, deport, do away with, exile, expatriate, get rid of, ostracize, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, remove, rusticate, sequester, taboo). (various references)

Romanian

sfeterisi (knock off, lift, make away with, nobble, pick, prig, sneak), se debarasa de (bargain away, cast aside, clear off, escape, fall out of, forsake, leave work, make away with), s-a sinucis (he made away with himself), pleca (absent onself, depart, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, make away with, pack off, pack up and be off, put off, sail, set out, shuffle off, start, take one's departure, take oneself off, withdraw), pleacã! du-te (away with you), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), nu lãsa nimic din (make away with), fura (abstract, crib, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal, thieve), face felul (knock off, make away with, shift), şterge-o (cheese it, clear off, get away with you, run along), înlåtura (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, cast away, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supersede, supplant, take away, throw by), îndepårta (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Russian 

упразднить (do away with), удрать с добычей (get away with it), кончать (do away with, down, end, finish, stop, terminate), выйти сухим из воды (get away with it), покончить с собой (make away with oneself, take one's own life), покончить с (be through with, do away with, polish off). (various references)

Scottish

traod (one wasting away with sickness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, destroy, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out, wreck), ubiti nekoga (make away with, rub out), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), izvući se (back out, creep out, get away with it, pull through, shirk), izvršiti samoubistvo (make away with oneself), iskoreniti (deracinate, destroy, do away with, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root, root out, root up, unroot, uproot). (various references)

Spanish

abolir (abate, aboil, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), abrogar (abolish, abrogate, disestablish, dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove, repeal). (various references)

Swedish

avskaffa (abolish, abrogate, annul, do away with, lift, repeal), ta livet av (do away with, kill), röja ur vägen (liquidate, make away with), röja någon ur vägen (make away with a person), komma undan med (get away with), göra av med (do away with), försnilla (embezzle, make away with, peculate), enlevera (abduct, run away with). (various references)

Turkish

alıp götürmek (carry away, come for, lead away, pick off, take away, take off, walk away with), ayrilmak (dispense with, do away with, get rid of, remove), ile kaçmak (make away with), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), ön plâna geçmek (walk away with), defol (away with you, be off, begone, drop dead, get out, get out of my sight, go boil your head, hence with it, off, off with you, out, piss off, push off, scram, swing, swing it), çalıp kaçmak (make away with), hayatına son vermek (end off it all, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, take one's own life), yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), intihar etmek (commit suicide, end off it all, go off the deep end, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, take one's own life), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), kendini öldürmek (commit suicide, make away with oneself, take one's own life), kolayca kazanmak (walk away with, win hands down), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, ditch, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, extinguish, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away), yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, hold down, lift, make away with, Nick, pilfer, prig, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, wage, walk, walk away with, walk off with), feshetmek (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, countermand, dissolve, do away with, outlaw, quash, remit, rescind, set aside, vacate, wash out). (various references)

Ukrainian

усунути (cashier, make away with, push off), геть звідси (away with you, off, off with you, piss off), збутися (make away with). (various references)

Welsh

gwaredu (deliver, do away with, redeem, rid, save). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: await, whity, withy.

-4 letters: away, ayah, thaw, wait, what, whit, with.

-5 letters: aah, aha, ait, awa, hat, haw, hay, hit, taw, thy, twa, wat, waw, way, wha, why, wit, yah, yaw.