Usually means: Pass time in leisurely manner.
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  1. while away: Merriam-Webster
  2. while away: Collins English Dictionary
  3. while away: Vocabulary.com
  4. while away: Wiktionary
  5. while away: Dictionary.com
  6. while away: Rhymezone
  7. while away: FreeDictionary.org
  8. while away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. while away: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. while away: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (while away)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To spend (time) idly but pleasantly
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To elapse, to pass.

Similar:
get through, while, tool around, dawdle, fiddle away, fiddle about, sit around, spend time, faff around, beguile, more...

Types:
pass, spend, waste, kill, devote, squander, dissipate, squeeze, squeeze out, more...

Phrases:
A Quick One, While He's Away, pining while away, while she walked away, more...

Adjectives:
go, levant, offn, getaway, goan, escaped, runaway, off, fugitive, w/o, fade

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Similar:
get through, while, tool around, dawdle, fiddle away, fiddle about, sit around, spend time, faff around, beguile, more...

Types:
pass, spend, waste, kill, devote, squander, dissipate, squeeze, squeeze out, more...

Phrases:
A Quick One, While He's Away, pining while away, while she walked away, more...

Adjectives:
go, levant, offn, getaway, goan, escaped, runaway, off, fugitive, w/o, fade



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