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run away
verb as in absquatulate
verb as in decamp
verb as in escape
verb as in get out
verb as in go
Strong matches
verb as in lam
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 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
verb as in scatter
Strong matches
Example Sentences
The only option was to get through the night and run away.
I wanted to run away right then,” he said, “but I had about 60 staff members in the studio to take care of first.
“I was never going to run away from the president,” Malloy said.
“We have guests run away all the time,” says manager Lee-Ann Wilber, who purchased the house 11 years ago.
Flash says it after watching Arrow swing off a rooftop; Arrow says it seconds later as he watches Flash run away.
It's quite true the land can't run away, but there are always rows and revolutions and smashes going on; you can't trust anybody.
Once or twice Squinty looked back toward the pen he had run away from, to see if Bob, his master, were coming after him.
The situation was too pregnant with tragedy for him to run away and leave the pair to deal with it as best they could.
Ma says 'twas no wonder the creatur' 'd run away an' hide in the woods soon's churnin' days come round.
But the inhabitants, seeing our boat coming, run away and hid themselves.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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