English Dictionary

make away

verb

(obsolete, intransitive) To depart, leave; to make off. / (obsolete, transitive) To destroy. / (obsolete, transitive) To kill. / (obsolete, transitive) To get rid of, dispose of.

He tried to make away with the stolen goods.

意味（1）

(obsolete, intransitive) To depart, leave; to make off.

意味（2）

(obsolete, transitive) To destroy.

意味（3）

(obsolete, transitive) To kill.

By him that dide for me, I wil not dine,

By him that dide for me, I wil not dine, Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.

意味（4）

(obsolete, transitive) To get rid of, dispose of.

‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’

意味（5）

(obsolete, reflexive) To kill oneself, commit suicide.

the people impatient of so many changes of fortune, tooke such a resolution unto death, that I have heard my father say, he kept accompt of five and twentie chiefe housholders, that in one weeke made them-selves away[…].