make away
verb1
Obsolete To depart, leave; to make off.
2
Obsolete To destroy.
3
Obsolete To kill.
- By him that dide for me, I wil not dine, Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act III:
- If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
4
Obsolete 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?’1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, volume II:
5
Obsolete 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of Epist. obscurorum vivorum, so to heart, that for shame and grief he made away himself., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263
- Derived terms
- make away with