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walk away from

walk away from verb: to abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.

Verb

walk away from (third-person singular simple present walks away from, present participle walking away from, simple past and past participle walked away from)

  1. (idiomatic) To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.
    • He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.
    • If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it.
  2. (idiomatic) To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury.
    • This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped."1965 November 12, “Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove”, in Time
  3. (idiomatic) To outpace effortlessly.
    • This blue Camaro looked bad, sounded worse and would run like a raped ape. I have no idea what-all-else Wayne did to this car, but it was a six-cylinder that would walk away from every car I came against.2005, Chuck E. Sanders, The Making of a Minister, page 59

Examples of walk away from in a sentence

  • If I walk away from you I'd be the one to hurt1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder, “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder...
  • When John Lithgow was announced as Dumbledore, he revealed that a friend had sent him a link to an article entitled: “An open letter to John Lithgow: Please walk away from Harry Potter.”2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media...

Forms of walk away from

third-person singular presentwalks away from
present participlewalking away from
past participlewalked away from
pastwalked away from

Questions about walk away from

What does walk away from mean?
Walk away from means to abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.
How do you use walk away from in a sentence?
If I walk away from you I'd be the one to hurt
What part of speech is walk away from?
Walk away from is a verb.
What is the past tense of walk away from?
The past tense of walk away from is walked away from.

Words near walk away from in the dictionary

  1. walk alone
  2. walk and chew gum at the same time
  3. walk around
  4. walk around money
  5. walk away
  6. walk away from
  7. walk away with
  8. walk back
  9. walk back the cat
  10. walk behind
  11. walk cycle

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