makeawayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

make away (三人称単数 現在形 makes away, 現在分詞 making away, 過去形および過去分詞形 made away)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To depart, leave; to make off.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To destroy.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
   • 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:

     By him that dide for me, I wil not dine,
     Till I haue ſeene thee hangd or made away.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To get rid of, dispose of.
   • 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, vol.II:

     ‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’

5. (obsolete, reflexive) To kill oneself, commit suicide.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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 […].

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970: