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running off
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away, depart secretly |
| Synonyms: | beat it, bolt*, break, clear out, cut and run, decamp, disappear, dog it, duck out, escape, fade*, flee, fly the coop, get, go AWOL, go south, hightail, jump*, leave, make a break, make off, make scarce, pull out, quit, run off, scram, skedaddle, skip out, slip, sneak away, split*, steal away, take off, vamoose, vanish |
| Antonyms: | abide, continue, endure, give up, remain, stay, stop, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away to be married |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bolt, decamp, disappear, escape, flee, fly, go secretly, go to Gretna Green, leave, run off, skip*, slip away, slip out, steal away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enumerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | list, count |
| Synonyms: | add up, calculate, cite, compute, count noses, detail, figure, identify, inventory, itemize, keep tabs, mention, name, number, particularize, quote, recapitulate, recite, reckon, recount, rehearse, relate, run down, run off, specialize, specify, spell out, sum, take account of, tally, tell, tick off, total |
| Antonyms: | not count |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break away from |
| Synonyms: | abscond, avoid, bail out, bolt, burst out, circumvent, cut and run, cut loose, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, dodge, double, duck, duck out, elope, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly, fly the coop, get away with, get off, go scot-free, leave, make getaway, make off, make oneself scarce, pass, play hooky, run, run away, run off, run out on, shun, skip, slip, slip away, steal away, take a powder, take flight, take on the lam, vanish, work out of, wriggle out |
| Antonyms: | capture, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | make off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flee, run away |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bolt*, clear, cut and run, decamp, depart, escape, fly*, go, leave, make away, quit, retire, run, run for it, run off, scamper, scoot, skedaddle, skip*, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce writing, impression; reproduce |
| Synonyms: | compose, disseminate, engrave, go to press, impress, imprint, issue, let roll, letter, mark, offset, publication calligraph, publish, put to bed, reissue, reprint, run off, set, set type, stamp, strike off |
| Main Entry: | jump bail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abscond |
| Synonyms: | escape, flee, leave town, run off |
| Main Entry: | lam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | escape |
| Synonyms: | abscond, avoid, bail out, blow*, bolt*, break out, burst out, circumvent, cut and run, cut loose, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, dodge*, double, duck, duck out, elope, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly the coop, fly*, get away, get away with, get off, give someone the slip, go scot-free, leave, make a getaway, make getaway, make off, make oneself scarce, pass, play hooky, run, run away, run off, run out on, shun, skip, slip away, slip*, steal away, take a powder, take flight, take it on the lam, take on the lam, vanish, work out of, wriggle out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Concept: | Escape. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity., [Means of escape] loophole (opening) [more]; path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape., reprieve (deliverance); liberation. refugee (fugitive) [more].
-verbs
escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm (safe); escape scot- free., elude, make off (avoid) [more];. march off (go away) [more]; give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of., disappear, vanish.
-adjectives
.escaping, escaped stolen away, fled.
-phrases
the bird has flown the coop.
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