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walk away

(ACCIDENT) phrasal verb with walk
 
/wɔːk/
 
US  /wɑːk/ verb

Definition

to escape an accident without being badly hurt: She overturned the car, but walked away from it without a scratch.Undamaged, unbroken or in good condition
(Definition of walk away (ACCIDENT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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