move away

Verb

Meaning

move away (third-person singular simple present moves away, present participle moving away, simple past and past participle moved away)

To go away from a place, especially when permanently changing one's residence.

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. O. Henry

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there. Ann Rule

tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now. E. E. Cummings

Either do as your neighbors do, or move away. Moroccan Proverb

If you are travelling towards the East, you will inevitably move away from the West. Japanese Proverb

Fight only when you can win; move away when you cannot. Chinese Proverb

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