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View definitions for run scared

run scared

verb as in turn tail

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Mark McKinnon on why the GOP will win big—if they run scared.

Later, he did not run scared like much of the press when Senator Joe McCarthy went on the rampage.

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On this page you'll find 147 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run scared, such as: anxious, apprehensive, frightened, nervous, scared, and shocked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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