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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
He has rolled a giant grenade into the middle of the nation’s capital and watched with mischievous glee to see who runs away and who throws themselves on it.
At the end of August Ms Brella phoned her father in India to say she had run away, her sister said.
Don’t take personally the Sagittarius penchant to run away at a moment’s notice to a faraway land promising the stimulation they not just crave but require to fuel their hyperactive brains.
"There was a young kid, who can't have been any more than eight or nine, and he picked up a rock, threw it at the police line and ran away," he said.
Their documents were taken to stop them running away, authorities added.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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