1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
Have me away, for I am wounded. 2 Chr 35.
2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away, send away, run away, _c.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.
Love hath wings and will away.
3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away, that is, be gone, or let us go. ""Away with him."" Take him away.
4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,
To throw away, to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.
To trifle away, to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.
To drink away, to squander away, _c., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.
To make away, is to kill or destroy.
5. Away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, ""I cannot away with it."" Isa 1. The sense is, ""I cannot bear or endure it.""