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Another word for run away

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Verb
  1. See also:

    run

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Another word for run away

Verb
  1. See also:

    retreat

    leave

    escape

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The Stand begins in typical apocalyptic sci-fi horror fashion, with a run-away man-made plague threatening the survival of mankind.

  • The Clocky run-away alarm clock gives you one chance to turn it off, but if you keep hitting the snooze button that is when he will jump from your bedside table, landing on large wheels and roll away.

  • No wonder he had run away from this one.

  • I didn't run away.

  • It's not like I'm asking you to run away with me.

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