make away with
verbEtymology From make away + with.
1
To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
- Thieves made away with £50,000 of jewellery in last night's heist.
2
To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
3
Obsolete To do away with; to destroy.
- We talked of a man’s drowning himself.―Johnson. “I should never think it time to make away with myself.”1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, page 50:
4
To be excused from punishment after committing (an offense).
› To be excused from punishment after…
5
College applicants can make away with a few office referrals and maybe a detention, but students who have been suspended or expelled may not be accepted.
- Synonyms
- make off with