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make away with

make away with verb: to steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.

Verb

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

  1. To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
    • Thieves made away with £50,000 of jewellery in last night's heist.
  2. To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
  3. (obsolete) To do away with; to destroy.
    • We talked of a man’s drowning himself.―Johnson. “I should never think it time to make away with myself.”1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, page 50
  4. To be excused from punishment after committing (an offense).
  5. College applicants can make away with a few office referrals and maybe a detention, but students who have been suspended or expelled may not be accepted.
    Synonyms:
    make off with

make away with meaning in Malayalam

make away with in Malayalam

murder, kill, dispatch
ചതിച്ചുകൊല്ലുക, കൊല്ലുക, കൊലചെയ്യുക, കൊലപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഹിംസിക്കുക, വധിക്കുക
dispose of, get rid of, destroy
കളയുക, ഒഴിവാക്കുക, ശല്യം തീർക്കുക, ചാണ്ടുക, കയ്യൊഴിയുക, ഒഴിച്ചുവിടുക

Synonyms of make away with

Forms of make away with

third-person singular presentmakes away with
present participlemaking away with
past participlemade away with
pastmade away with

Origin of make away with

From make away + with.

Questions about make away with

What does make away with mean?
Make away with means to steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
What is make away with in Malayalam?
Make away with in Malayalam is ചതിച്ചുകൊല്ലുക, കൊല്ലുക, കൊലചെയ്യുക. See Make away with meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is make away with?
Make away with is a verb.
What is the past tense of make away with?
The past tense of make away with is made away with.

Words near make away with in the dictionary

  1. make an offer
  2. make and mend
  3. make and mends
  4. make as if
  5. make away
  6. make away with
  7. make baby Jesus cry
  8. make bank
  9. make beautiful music together
  10. make belief
  11. make believe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make away with (page history and authors); make away with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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