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away, aweigh
away (uh WAY) (adverb)
1. From a particular thing or place: "Rodney ran away from the barking dog."
3. At or by a considerable interval: "The scientist lived away back in the 17th century."
"Dixie and Hal sent the children away to boarding school."
2. At or to a distance in space or time: "The Quinton family lived a block away from the park."3. At or by a considerable interval: "The scientist lived away back in the 17th century."
aweigh (uh WAY) (adjective)
A reference to an anchor; just clear of the bottom of a body of water: "The ship raised its anchor aweigh."
"The position of an anchor as it is raised clear of the bottom is referred to as being aweigh."
The sailors sang a shanty which began with the expression, "Anchors aweigh, lads, anchors aweigh" as the ship drew away from the dock. "Hurray! The anchor is aweigh and we are away to the Far East."
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“away”
(Latin: prefix; from, away, away from)
(Latin: separation, apart, asunder; removal, away, from; negation, deprivation, undoing, reversal, utterly, completely; in different directions)
(Latin: belly, venter [the use of "stomach" is considered incorrect for this root word]; from Latin abdo-, to put away)
(Latin: abluere, to wash away)
(Latin: miscarry, pass away, perish by an untimely birth)
(Greek: aphairesis, withdrawal, separation, removal and aphairein, to take away)
(Greek: from, away from, asunder, separate, separation from, derived from)
(Latin: to be in motion; to go, to go away, to yield, to give up, to withdraw)
(Latin: from, away from, off; down; wholly, entirely, utterly, complete; reverse the action of, undo; the negation or reversal of the notion expressed in the primary or root word)
(Latin: different, separate, opposite; literally, turned away [from each other])
(Latin: [from di-, "apart" and vertere, "to turn"] by-road, digression, deviation; to turn away, go in different directions)
(Greek: away from home)
(Greek: out of, out, outside; away from; used as a prefix)
(Latin: drive away, flee, fly, run away)
(Latin: to remove, to wander; moving; to move away, to depart from one place to another place)
(Greek: decay, waste away, waning; loss, diminution)
(Latin: tearing away, seizing, swift, rapid; snatch away, seize, carry off; from Latin rapere, "to seize by force and to carry off")
(Latin: gnaw, eat away; eaten away, gnawed off, consumed)
(Latin: waste away, decaying, languishing)
(Greek: far away, far off, at a distance)
(Greek: friction, rub, rubbing, grind, wear away; spend, waste time; be busy)
(Latin: to rub; to thresh, to grind; to wear away; from tritus, past participle of terere, "to rub")
(Latin: to pull, pulling; to tear, tearing, tearing away; to twitch, twitching)