"walk away" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-walk away.ogg [Australia] Forms: walks away [present, singular, third-person], walking away [participle, present], walked away [participle, past], walked away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} walk away (third-person singular simple present walks away, present participle walking away, simple past and past participle walked away)
  1. (idiomatic) To withdraw from a problematic situation. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-walk_away-en-verb-OsUx5TvX
  2. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. Tags: colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive Translations (Translations): yuragool wat (Nyunga)
    Sense id: en-walk_away-en-verb-lv0iDyLt Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 50 25 6 11 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 13 41 21 9 16 Disambiguation of 'Translations': 5 64 27 4 0
  3. To free oneself from a debt such as a mortgage by abandoning the collateral to the lender. To make a strategic default.
    Sense id: en-walk_away-en-verb-bc3M62zR
  4. (idiomatic) To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-walk_away-en-verb-x7EYDEsE
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, away. Derived forms: walk away from, walk away with Related terms: walk-away, walkaway
    Sense id: en-walk_away-en-verb-1U5koEPG

Inflected forms

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