made away

Verb

make away (third-person singular simple present makes away, present participle making away, simple past and past participle made away)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To depart, leave; to make off.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To destroy.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
   • By him that dide for me, I wil not dine,
     Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act III
4. (obsolete, transitive) To get rid of, dispose of.
   • ‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, volume II
5. (obsolete, reflexive) To kill oneself, commit suicide.
   • the people impatient of so many changes of fortune, tooke such a resolution unto death, that I have heard my father say, he kept accompt of five and twentie chiefe housholders, that in one weeke made them-selves away[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC