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run off
verb as in abscond
verb as in drain
verb as in elope
verb as in enumerate
verb as in escape
verb as in jump bail
Weak 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 away
- 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 make off
verb as in print
Example Sentences
It appeared that Baker would again have to face Clark in the forthcoming run-off.
And as for Landrieu, as I said, it seems to look still as if her contest is headed to a run-off.
Georgia and Louisiana, as you probably know, are run-off states.
After being asked, “what happened in Virginia the other day, does that concern you for your chances here in this run-off?”
He gathered 30 percent of the vote in 2009, but declined to participate in a run-off against Karzai.
It must travel a long way before it reaches the ground, and all this delay helps in preventing a rapid run-off or flood.
Even after the rain reaches the ground, only a small part of it goes off as surface run-off.
We had a good run-off before a stiff westerly that gradually hauled to the north, and Tuesday night late saw us in Halifax Harbor.
Bill had found plentiful colors as soon as the first big run-off of water had fallen.
In a humid climate the larger ravines through which the run-off flows soon descend below the ground-water surface.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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