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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 away with
 取掉,走開,滾蛋

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·way adv.
 1. From a place; hence.
    The sound is going away.   --Shak.
    Have me away, for I am sore wounded.   --2 Chron. xxxv. 23.
 2. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
 3. Aside; off; in another direction.
    The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun.   --Lockyer.
 4. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
    Be near me when I fade away.   --Tennyson.
 5. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
    And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down.   --Exod. xix. 24.
 6. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]
 Note:It is much used in phrases signifying moving or going from; as, go away, run away, etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast ? “Love hath wings, and will away.” --Waller. It serves to modify the sense of certain verbs by adding that of removal, loss, parting with, etc.; as, to throw away; to trifle away; to squander away, etc. Sometimes it has merely an intensive force; as, to blaze away.
 Away with, bear, abide. [Obs. or Archaic] “The calling of assemblies, I can not away with.” (--Isa. i. 13), i. e., “I can not bear or endure [it].”
 Away with one, signifies, take him away.  Away with him, crucify him.” --John xix. 15.
 To make away with. (a) To kill or destroy. (b) To carry off.