make away

verb5

1. •
   (no longer used) To destroy.
2. •
   (no longer used) To kill.

   • By him that dide for me, I wil not dine, Till I haue seene thee hangd or made away. — 1593
3. •
   (no longer used) To get rid of, dispose of.

   • ‘Will you,’ said he, ‘on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no, not a single paper?’ — 1740
4. •
   [with oneself] (no longer used) To kill oneself, commit suicide.

   • Hostratus the friar took that book which Reuchlin had written against him, under the name of Epist. obscurorum vivorum, so to heart, that for shame and grief he made away himself. — 2001
5. •
   (no longer used) To depart, leave; to make off.