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lam
verb as in escape
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bail out
- break out
- burst out
- cut and run
- cut loose
- duck out
- fly the coop
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- play hooky
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
Example Sentences
What follows are musical snapshots of an artist, who on the lam from himself, hones a style that will forever change the landscape of modern music.
Durst may have never faced a Galveston, Texas jury if he hadn’t been caught trying to steal a grocery store sandwich while he was on the lam.
The two animals on the lam caused an unusual traffic jam Saturday afternoon as they wove through slowing traffic and then stopped it on Interstate 90 in the downtown Cleveland area.
Since the macaque went on the lam, his fate had drawn reporters who waited nearby for updates on the monkey’s location.
While these “outlaws” are on the lam and resisting capture, everyday folks are rooting for them as they try to beat the system.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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