COME AWAY

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I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to be detached

Example:

His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery

Synonyms:

come away; come off; detach

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "come away" is one way to...):

divide; part; separate (come apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come away"):

blow off (come off due to an explosion or other strong force)

chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)

unsolder (remove the soldering from)

fall off (come off)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Leave in a certain condition

Example:

She came away angry

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "come away" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

Context examples:

And when she had come away, Mrs. Martin was so very kind as to send Mrs. Goddard a beautiful goose—the finest goose Mrs. Goddard had ever seen.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?” asked Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the ceiling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which, as their own carriage had not fetched them, she should have known nothing about, if she had not happened to see Mr. Jones's shop-boy in the street, who had told her that they were not to send any more draughts to Netherfield because the Miss Bennets were come away, when her civility was claimed towards Mr. Collins by Jane's introduction of him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We had to come away as ignorant as we went in.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then it makes it the easier for me to propose that you should come away with me for a week to the Continent.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To them I wish to add the money as she come away with.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But you would not wish me to come away before I am tired, papa?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You can imagine that I could hardly come away from the Amazon without probing deeper into the matter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come away, Impertinence, and don't shock my family by calling me names before their faces, answered Amy, resolving that there should be a home with a good wife in it before she set up a salon as a queen of society.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry.