go away

1. dismissalA command demanding someone to leave.

   Go away! Stop annoying me!

   Synonyms: amscray, away with you, be off with you, beat it, begone, bite me, bog off, bug off

present singular third person goes away · participle present going away · past went away · participle past gone away

1. To depart or leave a place.

   I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.

   3 more examples

   Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away

   1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish

   My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!

   1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77

   Don't delay Something tells me I gotta go away

   2009, Ingrid Michaelson, “Once Was Love”, in Everybody

   Synonyms: leave

2. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.

   Are you going away this year?

   1 more example

   Will you be going away at the weekend?

3. euphemisticTo go to prison to be incarcerated.

   If you get caught, you're going away for a long time.

4. To vanish or disappear.

   This cold just won't go away.

   2 more examples

   As you get closer the haze goes away.

   But the need for modern, reliable, frequent and clean modes of transport has never gone away.

   2023 October 18, Noel Dolphin, “Climate resilience in an era of budget cuts”, in RAIL, number 994, page 38