Synonyms for run-away
- verb
- noun
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Verb
flee, escape, turn tail, run, abscond, elope, make off, high-tail it, break away, bunk, decamp, lam, scat, fly the coop, skedaddle, hop the twig dated, scarper slang UK
Noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To flee by running.
The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
Related words
- Word family
- runaway
- Other spellings
- run away
Forms
- Plural
- run-aways → run-offs…
Example sentences
- escape Ships carry lifeboats so that the crew can escape.
- bunk How about we bunk off school and go to the beach?
- lam He escaped from prison thirty years ago and has been on the lam ever since.
- scat When Mary wasn't home, Tom would watch scat porn.
By length
- 3 letters
- run1, lam1
- 4 letters
- flee1, bunk1, scat1
- 5 letters
- elope2
- 6 letters
- escape2, decamp2
- 7 letters
- abscond2, scarper
- 9 letters
- skedaddle
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (elope2 = 2 syllables).