walk away from verb3 •To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it. •To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury.This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped." — 1965 •To outpace effortlessly. formswalked away from · walking away from · walks away from