whisk away

1. 1.

   take away quickly and suddenly

   Synonymswhisk off

   Broadertake away

Questions about whisk away

What does whisk away mean?

whisk away means "take away quickly and suddenly".

What is another word for whisk away?

Close synonyms include whisk 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 whisk away a common word?

whisk away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.