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steal away
verb as in abscond
verb as in elope
verb as in escape
verb as in fly
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 away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
Example Sentences
But before then, when I was at drama school, a friend and I used to steal away to a little room and he used to play the music.
"This is a significant step forward in our journey towards a future where high blood pressure doesn't have to steal away life."
Their ambitions of successive Champions League group campaigns had not so much been stolen away as ripped violently from them.
“I want that song to feel like an event, like the show was just stolen away from Hunter by Oscar,” explained Iconis.
Secretively working in an empty electrical workroom in her housing complex, Vicaria steals away in the night, literally and figuratively, to work on her project of reanimation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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