GET AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get away mean? 

• GET AWAY (verb)
  The verb GET AWAY has 3 senses:

1. run away from confinement

2. escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

3. remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

  Familiarity information: GET AWAY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run away from confinement

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

break loose; escape; get away

Context example:

The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison

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

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

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

break; break away; break out (move away or escape suddenly)

escape from; shake; shake off; throw off (get rid of)

bilk; elude; evade (escape, either physically or mentally)

exfiltrate (escape furtively, as from an area under enemy control)

slip (move smoothly and easily)

run away (escape from the control of)

escape; get away (remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

getaway (a rapid escape (as by criminals))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

escape; get away; get by; get off; get out

Context example:

I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities

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

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

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

evade (use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

escape; get away

Context example:

The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer

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

break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

As soon as he had had enough he wanted to get away; but he had eaten so much that he could not go out by the same way he came in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It could be easy for spending to get away from you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He ventured the petty officers' mess, and was glad to get away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

‘That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you have stolen,’ said I.

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

“How did he get away?” Johnson asked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I could not for my life get away from the feeling that there was some one else amongst us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We cannot assume that we get away with it.

(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Take whatever you like, and get away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is obvious, therefore, that I cannot do better than get away for the few days which remain before the police are at liberty to act.

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

I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.

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