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making away

making away is the present participle and gerund 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)

  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

Questions about making away

What is making away the present participle and gerund of?
Making away is the present participle and gerund of make away.

Words near making away in the dictionary

  1. making an exhibition of oneself
  2. making an honest woman
  3. making an impression
  4. making an offer
  5. making as if
  6. making away
  7. making away with
  8. making baby Jesus cry
  9. making bank
  10. making beautiful music together
  11. making believe

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