makes away
makes away is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make away.
Meaning of make away
Verb
make away (third-person singular simple present makes away, present participle making away, simple past and past participle made away)
- To depart, leave; to make off.
- To destroy.
- 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
- By him that dide for me, I wil not dine,
- 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
- 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
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