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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
By soaking soils, they’ll enable future rainstorms to more easily run off into reservoirs and snow to accumulate in the Sierra Nevada.
Their physicality, ability to win second balls, and commitment to running off the ball and arrive in dangerous areas were key to them getting an impressive win.
She convinced the baker from the village that she was worth wooing, and the two of them ran off together.
Then the three Incorrigibles ran off to do as they had been told.
“We did see an ostrich on our walk, sir. It . . . I mean, she—Bertha—ran off into the woods,” Penelope explained.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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