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draw away

vb. (context idiomatic English) To move away.

WordNet
draw away
  1. v. move ahead of (one's competitors) in a race

  2. remove by drawing or pulling; "She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth"; "draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese" [syn: draw off, pull off]

Usage examples of "draw away".

Sometimes they would draw away from me, and seem quite to forget me.

DE GUICHE (trying to draw away the dismayed viscount): Come away, Viscount!

You draw away from situations like this, and that leaves a void, a place where you will not go willingly.

When she was keyed up for a fight or feeling threatened, she'd be furious but she didn't draw away from her friends.

They saw the sun go down and, shade by shade, deepen and make radiant and then draw away with it the last touches of color -- rose-gold, rose-purple, and rose-gray.

As the radius of Phobos's circle was far shorter than that of the parabolic curve they were making, it began to draw away, and was rapidly left behind.

Do this and I will slay this priest and draw away the chain and you may go hence unharmed.