phrasal verb · neutral
make away with
/meɪk əˈweɪ wɪð/MAKE·a·WAY·with
task2speaking
to steal something, or sometimes to kill someone (informal)
Examples
“The burglars made away with several laptops overnight.”
“Corruption made away with funds intended for schools.”
“The evidence suggested someone had tried to make away with the documents.”
Band 8 sentence
“Investigators concluded that insiders had made away with confidential files over several months.”
Collocations
- make away with valuables/money/documents
- make away with the evidence
- was made away with
Word family
made away with verb (past)making away with gerund
Common mistakes
They made away the laptops.→They made away with the laptops.
The documents were made away.→The documents were made away with.
Say it for a higher band
5steal→6make away with→7+make away with
Synonyms
steal
misappropriate
Easily confused
make off with
“They made off with the jewellery before dawn.”
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