walk away (English, verb)
expansion: walk away (third-person singular simple present walks away, present participle walking away, simple past and past participle walked away)
Senses:
glosses: To withdraw from a problematic situation.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
tags: colloquial
euphemistic
intransitive
glosses: To free oneself from a debt such as a mortgage by abandoning the collateral to the lender. To make a strategic default.
glosses: To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, away.
Forms:
form: walks away
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: walking away
tags: participle
present
form: walked away
tags: participle
past
form: walked away
tags: past