| Library / English Dictionary |
GET AWAY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
Example:
I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
Synonyms:
escape; get away; get by; get off; get out
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "get away" is one way to...):
avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get away"):
evade (use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Run away from confinement
Example:
The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
Synonyms:
break loose; escape; get away
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get away" is one way to...):
flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get away"):
break; break away; break out (move away or escape suddenly)
escape from; shake; shake off; throw off (get rid of)
bilk; elude; evade (escape, either physically or mentally)
exfiltrate (escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control)
slip (move smoothly and easily)
run away (escape from the control of)
escape; get away (remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
getaway (a rapid escape (as by criminals))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
Example:
The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer
Synonyms:
escape; get away
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "get away" is one way to...):
break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
With them it was snap and slash and get away, snap and slash and get away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“But how are we to get away with it, and us no ship.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The mother I could not avoid, as long as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with the housekeeper, but the son I can get away from.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Were he ever able to get away, the day would be spent in coming and returning.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“But they can’t get away from us!”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Shall not get away from us again!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Skinner and his family were here three months; so I tell Mr. Allen he must not be in a hurry to get away.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I have said that the one person from whom we had had some sign of sympathy in our attempts to get away was the young chief whom we had rescued.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If I had anywhere else to go, I should be glad to leave it; but I can never get away from Gateshead till I am a woman.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
