BEAR AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bear away mean? 

• BEAR AWAY (verb)
  The verb BEAR AWAY has 1 sense:

1. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

  Familiarity information: BEAR AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAR AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bear away; bear off; carry away; carry off; take away

Context example:

I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry

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

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

"Bear away" entails doing...:

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

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

spirit away (carry away rapidly and secretly, as if mysteriously)

spirit away; spirit off (carry off mysteriously; as if by magic)

whisk away; whisk off (take away quickly and suddenly)

Sentence frames:

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 Context examples 

Let me draw one last picture before I close the notebook—a picture which is the last memory of the old country which I bear away with me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)