move away

English

Verb

move away (third-person singular simple present moves away, present participle moving away, simple past and past participle moved away)

1. To go away from a place, especially when permanently changing one's residence.
   • 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 178:

     By Tuesday evening the track had been cleared to the three snowbound engines, and the following day, under their own steam, they were moved away; the business of relighting their fires and raising steam in such conditions is better imagined than described.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: muuttaa pois (when changing one's residence), mennä pois, siirtyä pois
• French: déménager (fr)
• German: weggehen (de), wegziehen (de) (changing one's residence)
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• Norwegian: trekke unna
• Romanian: se îndepărta, se muta (changing one's residence)