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Definition: Walk Away |
Walk AwayVerb1. Go away from; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Walk AwaySynonym: walk off (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Walk Away |
| Specialty definitions using "walk away": Back ♦ ghost ♦ Preacher. (references) |
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Screenplays | Don't you walk away from me, you chalk-faced whore! (Chained Heat; writing credit: Aaron Butler; Paul Nicholas) I just gotta I gotta walk away from this. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) There are some things a man just can't walk away from. (Stagecoach; writing credit: Ernest Haycox; Dudley Nichols) The difference between you and all the victims is you can walk away. (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; writing credit: Ervin Iunapuu) Well, he didn't just get up and walk away! (The Howling; writing credit: Gary Brandner; John Sayles) | |
Lyrics | I'd take what I wanted and just walk away, but I never made it to the door. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois) Just walk away Renee, (Walk Away Renee; performing artist: The Left Bank) When you should turn and walk away (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special) I won't walk away again (Circle In The Sand; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) We walk away, maybe then shake hands (But Anyway; performing artist: Blues Traveler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone: Super Fat Burning (2001) | |
Song Titles | WALK AWAY RENEE (performing artist: Four Tops ) Don't Walk Away (performing artist: Jade) Walk Away Renee (performing artist: The Left Bank) | |
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![]() | Happy to walk away Triangulation party of Norman Sylar.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | CAMP BUTMIR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFPN) -- Tech. Sgt. James Monk (left) and Master Sgt. Scott Wagers walk away from a helicopter landing pad here as a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk rises into the air behind them. Wagers and Scott are two aerial-qualified comb. |
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Michael Korda | Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I rush in, and save one of the children, and then walk away, leaving the other to drown. |
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Health | Until recently, modern medicine has had very little power over this disease, but the world of stroke medicine is changing and new and better therapies are being developed every day. Today, some people who have a stroke can walk away from the attack with no or few disabilities if they are treated promptly. (references) | |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | People who bring children into this world cannot and must not walk away from them. |
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Expressions using "walk away": walk away from ♦ walk away with. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
walk away the pound | 514 |
walk away | 79 |
leslie sansone walk away the pound | 29 |
walk away renee | 21 |
walk away the pound for abs | 17 |
ben harper walk away | 15 |
don t walk away | 12 |
walk away the pound by leslie sansone | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "walk away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отвеждам (carry, carry off, derive, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, take off), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, pull away, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, shunt, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 走出 (to move away from, to walk away from). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odejít (come away, come off, depart, go away, go off, go out, leave, make one's exit, make tracks for, move away, move off, quit, retire, stir, to leave, vacate, walk off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | quitter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | davon gehen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allontanarsi (depart, go away, leave, recede, roll away, stray, walk off, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shooyl roish (walk along, walk off), goll roish (antecede, betake, buzz off, clear out, go ahead, go before, go off, make away, move on, nip off, pass on, pop off, precede). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alkway awayay odšetati (stroll away). (various references) robar (abstract, burglarize, burgle, draw, pinch, pluck, remove, Rob, scrounge, steal, thieve, twist, walk off), partir (abandon, break, call away, chapter, chop, cleave, come off, crack, cut, depart, district, divide, dole out, drive away, drive off, fly off, go, go alone, go away, leaving, set off, set out, share, split, split up, start off, start out, tear, tear up, throw over), negarse (balk, baulk, decline), llevarse (bear away, bear off, blow away, bring away, carry away, carry off, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk off, wash, win), irse caminando (get along, get out, go down, lap over, walk off), copar (cut off, surround, sweep the board, walk off), alejarse (bear off, draw away, estrange, flounce away, move away, move off, pass over, recede, walk off). (various references) yürüyüp gitmek, uzaklaşmak (become distant, draw away, grow away from, move away, recede, retire, walk off, wander, wander away, wander off), terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), geride bırakmak (distance, have the drop on, leave astern, leave behind, outdistance, outpace, outstrip, set back, shoot ahead of). (various references) відходити (backtrack, be off, belie, branch out, depart, digress, move back, move off, pull off, pull out, stand out, trek, walk off, withdraw, yield), обігнати (outclass, outdistance, outdrive, outfoot, outrun, outsail), поцупити (nab, nail, nibble, nip, pilfer, pull, scrounge, snitch, walk off, win). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: walkaway. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-k-l-w-w-y" | |
-1 letter: walkway. | |
-3 letters: alway. | |
-4 letters: alky, away, laky, walk, waly, wawl, yawl. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, awa, awl, kay, law, lay, waw, way, yak, yaw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-k-l-w-w-y" | |
+1 letter: walkaways. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 6C 6B      41 77 61 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a l k   A w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 006C 006B      0041 0077 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57677877235896791 |
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