make away
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English
Verb
make
away
(
obsolete
,
intransitive
)
To
depart
,
leave
; to
make off
.
(
obsolete
,
transitive
)
To
destroy
.
(
obsolete
,
transitive
)
To
kill
.
Burton
If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they
made
him
away
.
(
obsolete
,
transitive
)
To
get rid of
,
dispose
of.
1740
, Samuel Richardson,
Pamela
, vol.II:
‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to
make
them
away
; no, not a single paper?’
(
obsolete
,
reflexive
)
To
kill
oneself,
commit suicide
.
Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly
, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of
Epist. obscurorum vivorum
, so to heart, that for shame and grief he
made away
himself.
Derived terms
make away with
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