walk away

1. 1.

   go away from

   “The actor walked off before he got his cue”

   “I got annoyed and just walked off”

   Synonymswalk off

   Broaderleave

Questions about walk away

What does walk away mean?

walk away means "go away from".

What is another word for walk away?

Close synonyms include walk off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is walk away a common word?

walk away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.