going away

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going away

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of go away

adverb

  1. idiomatic, of a race Ahead of the competitors and still increasing the lead. Kells Castle has a leading chance in a wide open 25-runner Martinstown Opportunity Series Final Handicap Hurdle. He scored going away by three and a half lengths at Fairyhouse.
  2. broadly, idiomatic Readily, handily, unmistakably. "I have never been chewed out like he chewed me out. . . . It must have worked because we went out in the second half and beat them going away."

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@misc{going_away_2026,
  title = {going away},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/going%20away},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}