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Phrase(s): move away (from someone or something)
1. to withdraw from someone or something. • Please don’t move away from me. I like you close by. • I have to move away from the smoking section. • There was too much smoke there, so I moved away. 2. to move, with one’s entire household, to another residence. • Timmy was upset because his best friend had moved away. • They moved away just as we were getting to know them., Phrase(s): move someone or something away (from someone or something)
to cause someone or something to withdraw from someone or something. • Move Billy away from Tommy so they will stop fighting. • Move the cake away from Billy.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs