go (away)

verb

Definition of go (away)next
as in to separate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for go (away)
  1. separate
  2. evaporate
  3. disappear
  4. flee
  5. fade
  6. melt
  7. evanesce
Verb
  • There will be two 15-minute periods (plus stoppage time) separated by a short break.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 12 July 2026
  • Families torn apart The disaster has led to a particularly complex situation for those children who were separated from parents whose fate remains unclear.
    — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of separate
Verb
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Most of the hope for the Warriors to make some kind of franchise-altering move evaporated in that moment.
    — Nick Friedell, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of evaporate
Verb
  • Khalra’s investigation alleged that thousands of people who had disappeared were cremated anonymously by police without informing their families or maintaining official records.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • Bond has always been an intriguing vessel; by design, the spy is detached and isolated, a character who can disappear into the shadows and emerge totally fixated on a new mission with his past loves and losses brushed off with ease.
    — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Definition of disappear
Verb
  • By the time police arrived at the scene, the suspect had already fled.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • In 1940, Goudstikker fled the Netherlands during the country’s invasion by Nazi Germany, leaving behind his collection of some 1,400 paintings, mostly Old Master works.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of flee
Verb
  • Markets had become comfortable with the idea that the conflict would gradually fade into the background but recent developments suggest that assumption may have been premature.
    — Hugh Leask,Chloe Taylor,Lee Ying Shan,Yun Li, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • As the dance went on, more voices joined in and the music gradually faded, eventually disappearing.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Definition of fade
Verb
  • Imagine how that comes across to a president who wouldn’t admit to climate change if his putter melted in his hands or Mar-a-Lago became a swim-up hotel.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • But with a lack of snow, its reputation is at risk of melting away.
    — Cristopher Ulloa, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of melt
Verb
  • Gilchrist replies, his voice brightening the way an ancient sun suddenly burns through an evanescing cloud.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Monkfish in a gripping mussel broth found its voice in between sips of an off-dry Alsatian pinot gris, its honeyed sweetness just evanescing off the brine of the seafood.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 3 Jan. 2020
Definition of evanesce
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“Go (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go%20%28away%29. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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