go away

verb

went away; gone away; going away; goes away
Synonyms of go awaynext
1
: to leave a place or person
She angrily told him to go away and stop bothering her.
2
: to leave home for a period of time
They're going away on vacation.
After graduating from high school, he went away to college.
3
: to stop existing or happening : to end
I just wish there was some way to make the pain go away.

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Coker, his quad lit up on him a little bit, and so the pain wasn’t really going away. — Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2026 Ryosuke Inoue, Visiting Fellow at CSIS Climate change means the shocks testing that system aren’t going away. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 Some departments should not be touched or very limited; and some departments may go away entirely. — Marci Woodward, Sun Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026 Hayden Panettiere's fatal overdose is a stark reminder that the fentanyl crisis has not gone away, even as the United States makes genuine progress in reducing overdose deaths since peaking in 2022. — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for go away

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“Go away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20away. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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