GOING AWAY Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

going (away)

verb

Definition of going (away)

present participle of go (away)

as in branching (out)

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Verb

The group battled cultural bias, personal struggles, and melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption and a historic victory.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
Crews found flames that were pushing out of the second and third floors and melting siding on an adjoining building, Coughlin said.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of melting

Verb

The workflows are versioned, reused, and improved rather than disappearing after a single interaction, and Sunny regularly coordinates with other agents.

— Will Drover, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Africa is warming faster than the global average, and a UN climate report said that Mount Kenya’s glaciers are disappearing particularly fast, losing more than half their area in the last decade.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of disappearing

Verb

Despite this seemingly critical importance to the automaker at a time when its profit margins are evaporating, Tesla may be contemplating a future without China.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026
Book review sections are evaporating; NPR has been eviscerated; and social media followings no longer seem to be reliably converting into book sales.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of evaporating

Verb

Drones struck the nearby town of Al-Burj Al-Shamali, which was subsequently hit by a strike from a fighter jet, NNA said on Thursday, adding that people were seen fleeing toward Tyre.

— Todd Symons, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Then, one of the men can be seen pulling out a gun, shooting at the influencer and immediately fleeing the scene.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of fleeing

Verb

At another MetroLoft project, 25 Water Street, Berman and a co-developer had taken a radical approach to breaking up the interior space of a hulking building that once housed offices belonging to JPMorgan Chase.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Yannick Bright started the sequence breaking up a Fire run at midfield.

— Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of breaking up

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