make away with

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) To steal; to escape with ill-gotten gains.
 * 2) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
 * 3) To do away with; to destroy.
 * 4) To be excused from punishment after committing (an offense).
 * 1) To be excused from punishment after committing (an offense).

Quotations

 * 1843 Past and Present, book 2, ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond
 * the Dominus Rex, at departing, gave us 'thirteen sterlingii,' one shilling and one penny, to say a mass for him; and so departed (...)! 'Thirteen pence sterling,' this was what the Convent got from Lackland, for all the victuals he and his had made away with. We of course said our mass for him (...)