make+away+with
1make away with — ► make away with 1) another way of saying make off with. 2) kill furtively and illicitly. Main Entry: ↑make …
2make away with — index dispatch (put to death), distrain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3make away with — 1 she decided to make away with him: KILL, murder, dispatch, eliminate; informal bump off, do away with, do in, do for, knock off, top, croak, stiff, blow away; N. Amer. informal ice, rub out, smoke, waste; poetic/lite …
4make away with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms make away with : present tense I/you/we/they make away with he/she/it makes away with present participle making away with past tense made away with past participle made away with make away with something to… …
5make away with — 1. to kill The victims are usually domestic animals. Of humans, usually reflexive and referring to suicide: ... ready to make away with themselves. (R. Burton, 1621) 2. to steal The act of physical removal …
6make away with — {v.}, {informal} Take; carry away; cause to disappear. * /The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes./ * /Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll./ Compare: MAKE OFF …
7make away with — {v.}, {informal} Take; carry away; cause to disappear. * /The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes./ * /Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll./ Compare: MAKE OFF …
8make\ away\ with — v informal take; carry away; cause to disappear. The lumberjack made away with a great stack of pancakes. Two masked men held up the clerk and made away with the payroll. Compare: make off …
9make away with — take, carry away The cat made away with the fish that was sitting on top of the kitchen counter …
10make away with — another way of saying make off with. ↘ kill (someone). → make …
