To flee by running. / To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.

To lose strength, become weaker; to wane; to disappear or reduce slowly.

(art) A technique of painting young women, by having their clothes fade into the background.

(intransitive) To move in a direction opposite to that which one is facing, keeping one's attention on the thing in front being avoided.

(intransitive) To refrain from coming (near). / (transitive) To prevent from coming (near).

To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains. / To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate. / To do away with; to destroy.

(transitive, as of a thing or person) To steal; to take away. / (transitive) To move away, as physically or emotionally. / (transitive) To take possession of the mind of; to charm, transport, or delude.

(informal, transitive) To stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away. / (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind. / (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.

(idiomatic) By a large degree or margin; greatly.