STAY AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stay away mean? 

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

1. stay clear of, avoid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAY AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stay clear of, avoid

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

keep one's distance; keep one's eyes off; keep one's hands off; stand back; stay away

Context example:

Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous

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

be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them not any longer.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

‘Harold,’ said she, speaking English with a broken accent. ‘I could not stay away longer.

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

Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life Scale (PDQUALIF) My Parkinson's symptoms cause me to stay away from social gatherings.

(PDQUALIF - Social Isolation, NCI Thesaurus)

He can come in the morning, or he can stay away.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I came because I could no longer stay away, because my heart compelled me to come, because—because I wanted to come.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you don’t have the time to stay away overnight, then take your road trip on Sunday, December 8, your best, most romantic day of the weekend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was ordinarily gone from three to four days, though it was nothing unusual for him to stay away a week at a time on the ice-field.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Then why do you stay away so long?” replied Catherine—finding that he waited for an answer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"What made you stay away so long?" she asked presently, finding it so pleasant to ask confidential questions and get delightful answers that she could not keep silent.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Better not give you all now: you would, perhaps, stay away three months if you had fifty pounds.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)