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go away

go away interjection: a command demanding someone to leave.

Interjection

  1. (dismissal) A command demanding someone to leave.
    • Go away! Stop annoying me!

Verb

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.
    • 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 away1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish
    Synonyms:
    leave
  2. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.
    • Will you be going away at the weekend?
    • 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.

go away meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

go away in Hindi

interjection
जाओ यहाँ से jāo yahā̃ se

go away in Tamil

பறி, இக

go away in Urdu

interjection
جاؤ! jā'ō, چلے جاؤ! chale jā'ō!

go away in Malayalam

go, depart, leave
സ്ഥലംവിട്ടുപോകുക, പോവുക, വിട്ടൊഴിയുക, വിടപറഞ്ഞുപോകുക, വിട്ടകലുക, പുറപ്പെടുക
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go away in Kannada
ಅಗಲು, ತೊಲಂಗು, ತೊಲಗು, ತೊನಗು
go away in Odia
ଯିବା jibā
go away in Sanskrit
संनिर्गच्छति saṃnirgacchati, जिगाति jígāti, या yā, एति éti
go away in Assamese
গুচা gusa, ফুটা phuta
go away in Arabic
اِبْتَعَدَ ibtaʕada
go away in Vietnamese
biến, cút, phắn, xéo

Synonyms of go away

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Forms of go away

third-person singular presentgoes away
present participlegoing away
pastwent away
past participlegone away

Words formed from go away

Questions about go away

What does go away mean?
Go away means a command demanding someone to leave.
What is go away in Hindi?
Go away in Hindi is जाओ यहाँ से (jāo yahā̃ se). See Go away meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is go away?
Go away can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near go away in the dictionary

  1. go around with
  2. go astray
  3. go at
  4. go at a good clip
  5. go at it
  6. go away
  7. go awry
  8. go back
  9. go back a long way
  10. go back in time
  11. go back on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: go away (page history and authors); go away (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); go away (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); go away (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଯିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); एति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); গুচা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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