Get Away

Definition: Get Away

Get Away

Verb

1. Run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison".

2. Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities".

3. Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Get Away

Ejection

Interjection: begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! get the hell out of here!, go about your business! be off! avaunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va-t'en!

Escape

Elude; make off; (avoid); march off; (go away); give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of.

Recession

Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid).

Crosswords: Get Away

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)

It's funny, you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave, you find a reason to stay. (Gattaca; writing credit: Andrew Niccol)

I'm not going to let them get away with this. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

It's bringing love, don't let it get away! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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

You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you (Silver Springs; performing artist: Fleetwood Mac)

I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

The way we get away, throw away a whole day (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Come on baby let's get away (Escapade; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Why do bagpipers walk when they play? They're trying to get away from the noise. (references; author: unknown)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

The Get Away Day (1924)

You Can't Get Away with It (1923)

Get Away Get Away (1993)

GET AWAY (performing artist: WIND & FIRE EARTH)

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Books

• 101 Ways to Get Away With Anything! (Malcolm in the Middle) (reference)

• Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Fodor's Healthy Escapes : 284 Resorts and Retreats Where You Can Get Fit, Feel Good, Find Yourself and Get Away from It All (Fodor's Healthy Escapes) (reference)

• Walking San Diego: Where to Go to Get Away from It All (reference)

• When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away With Murder (reference)

  (more book examples)

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"Jeff wants to get away". Credit: Library of Congress.

Survivors struggle to get away from the Titanic in this artist's conception / Willy S.(?). 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.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Were he ever able to get away, the day would be spent in coming and returning.

The remaining guests seemed only too glad to get away, leaving only the Count and our four selves.

I defy you to get away from that.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

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)

Human Rights

Mexico

Five human rights activists, Sergio Aguayo, Edgar Cortez, Miguel Sarre, Juan Antonio Vega and Fernando Ruiz, received death threat via a letter sent to la Reforma on October 28. In August unknown armed assailants tried to stop Marina Patricia Jimenez Ramirez' car, but she was able to get away. (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 "get away": get away from ♦ get away with ♦ get away with it ♦ get away with smth. ♦ get away with you! ♦ Interjection: begone! get you gone! get away ♦ To get away with. Additional references.

Albanian

shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, deliver, elude, escape, extricate, flee, get off the hook, get out, get rid, get rid of, heal, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip, spare), largohem (backdown, backtrack, depart, evacuate, get along, go, go away, go off, leave, make oneself scarce, move out, recede, retire, run away, run off, secede, subside, take away, turn out, veer), ik me pushime, ik (begone, blast off, clear off, depart, escape, exit, fly away, get along, get out, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, pass off, push off, retire, run away, run off, shoot through, take away, take off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فلت من (get away with smth.), ‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, decamp, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail), ‏وجد طريقة للهروب, ‏إنطلق (career, dash, go, lick, pull away, push off, scud, set out, shove off, split, spout, spring, spurt, start, start off, start out, take out, tee off, waft), ‏إنطلاق (airiness, break, dash, discharge, flight, kick, licking, rush, starting, take off), ‏إنصرف (clear off, clear out, depart, dismiss, go away, go off, make tracks, part, pop off, run along, scram, sling one's hook, take off, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, take out, weed out), отвеждам (carry, carry off, derive, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, take off, walk away), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, pull away, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, shunt, take off, walk away), омитам се, махам (clean off, flap, lash, motion, pick, pull off, remove, rip away, switch, take away, wag, waggle), измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, fish out, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, wheedle, worm), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight). (various references)

Chinese 

脫 (to escape, to get away from, to shed, to take off), 不依 (get away with it, not comply, not go along with, not let off easily, not let sb). (various references)

Czech

uprchnout (abscond, elope, elude, flee, make one's getaway, scape), uniknout (abscond, break, break away, elude, evade, get off), nepovídej (don't give me that, go on). (various references)

Finnish

päästä lähtemään, päästä karkuun (escape, flee). (various references)

French

quitter, prendre son pied, prendre la fuite (get off, getaway), partir, filer, démarrer (get off, get started). (various references)

German

davonkommen (escape, get away with it, get off, to get away, to get off). (various references)

Greek 

ξεφεύγω (bilk, dodge, escape, evade, get out, leak, slip). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"מלט (escape, flee, fly, make off, run away, take to ones heels), ל�"תחמק (dodge, elude, eschew, evade, get out, hedge, run around, shirk, sneak, stall, wriggle), ל�"סתלק (be off, depart, exit, go away, go off, make off, pop off, retire, scat, scram, sheer off, skip, take off, withdraw), לברוח (escape, flee, fling off, make haste, make off, run, run away, run off, scamper, take flight, take to ones heels, turn tail). (various references)

Hungarian

megszökik (abscond, elope, escape, fall away, to abscond, to defect, to desert, to effect one's escape, to elope, to make one's escape, to make tracks, to skedaddle, to skip off), leszed (pick off, to clear away, to clear away the things, to disassemble, to gather, to get down, to pick off, to skim), elszabadul (break loose, to break loose, to cut loose, to get loose, to get off, to get out of control, to get out of hand, to slip its chain). (various references)

Indonesian

pelarian (escape). (various references)

Italian

scappare (abscond, bolt, break, elope, escape, flee, pop off, run away, rush, scamper, slip), fuga (break, breakaway, escape, flight, fugue, leak, outrush, run, scape, sprint), evasione (breakaway, elopement, escape, evasion, flight, fuite, gaolbreak, gaolbreaking, getaway, jailbreak, jailbreaking, transaction), evadere (bilk, despatch, dispatch, escape, evade, run away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逃�'切る (to get away, to manage to hold on), 罷り通る (to get away with, to go by, to let pass). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まかりとおる (to get away with, to go by, to let pass), に�'きる (to get away, to manage to hold on). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay awayay

Portuguese

ir embora (get out, go away, leave, make off, off, put out, take off), fugir (abscond, bolt, break away, bunk, decamp, disject, disperse, dodge, elope, elude, escape, flee, fleet, get away with, lam, make off, retreat, run, run away, scoot, up and away), escapar (bypass, come off, dodge, escape, evade, flee, get away with, leave out, omit, overlook, run away, run off), deixar (allow, depart, drop off, forsake, go, go away, go out, have, leave, leave behind, leave out, let, let go, move out, quit, release, see, step out, take one's leave, throw over, to avoid, to leave, unhand). (various references)

Romanian

pleca (absent onself, depart, 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), marş (away, forward, get out, get out of here, March, parade), ieşi cu bine dintr-o afacere, evada (break away, break out, escape, flee, make one's escape, make one's getaway). (various references)

Russian 

ускользнуть (nip away, slip away), удрать (bolt, cut one's lucky, give leg bail, give leg-bail, make off, nip away, run off, scram, take to one's heels), удирать (bung off, bunk, change one's base, decamp, guy, scoot, scooted, skedaddle, vamoose, vamose), избежать (avoid, escape). (various references)

Scottish

faigh (find, find : faigh as air, get, get away from him, have, receive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skloniti se (shelter, stand aloof), pobeći (break out, elope, escape, flee, make off, run, run away, run off, take flight), izaći na kraj (cope with). (various references)

Spanish

separar (break off, break up, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, divide, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, segregate, separate, sever, take away), salir (absent onself, break, break out, come off, come out, come up, depart, departing, drive away, drive off, emancipate, emerge, exit, get out, get over, go, go away, go off, go on, go out, issue, lead off, leak, leave, leaving, line out, lurch out, march out, pan out, pass out, Pierce, pop out, protrude, pull out, push through, put off, put out, radiate, rise, sail, sail out, set forth, set forward, set out, shoot out, shoot up, stand out, start off, step out, stick out, take away, take off, take out, throw off, to leave, troop, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn up, walk out, wash off), quitar de en medio (remove), quitar de en medido, quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, clear out, come off, encroach on, excise, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), ir fuera (lead away, lead off), ir de vacaciones, intimidar (browbeat, daunt, get at, intimidate, overawe, put off, scare, trouble), evadirse (abscond, break away, break out, escape, hedge, run away, weave), evadir (abscond, avoid, dodge, escape, evade, pass), escaparse (abscond, bilk, break away, break out, escape, flee, get out, leak, leak out, make tracks, run away, sling one's hook, take flight, take to one's heels, wriggle, wriggle out), escapar (break away, drive hard, elope, escape, flee, get off, let off, ride hard, run away, take flight), conseguir marcharse. (various references)

Swedish

komma bort, ge sig av (be off, go off, move off, move out, set out). (various references)

Turkish

yakasını kurtarmak (divest oneself of, make a clean sweep of, make the best of a bad bargain, shake), sıvışmak (decamp, do a bunk, duck, fade, flee, hook it, light out, make off, make tracks, nip off, scram, sheer off, shift away, sidle away, skedaddle, skin out, skip it, slide, slink off, sneak out of, take french leave, take wing), 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 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), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off). (various references)

Ukrainian

старт, уникнути, втеча (bolt, bunk, decampment, escapade, escape, escapement, skedaddle), виїжджати (move out), дременути (nip, scamper away, scamper off). (various references)

evadere. (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

Direct Anagrams: gateway, getaway.

-2 letters: agate.

-3 letters: away, gate, geta, twae, wage, wyte.

-4 letters: aga, age, ate, awa, awe, aye, eat, eta, gae, gat, gay, get, gey, tae, tag, taw, tea, teg, tew, twa, tye, wae, wag, wat, way, wet, wye, yaw, yea, yet, yew.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, at, aw, ay, et, ta, we, ya, ye.

+1 letter: gateways, getaways.

+4 letters: steerageway.

+5 letters: steerageways.