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run away

verb

1 run away

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.

synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, scarper, scat ... show more.

Roget 862: quail etc. (fear) 860; be cowardly etc. adj., be a coward etc. n.; funk; cower, skulk, ... show more

Roget 287: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; ... show more

Dutch: weglopen, vluchten

2 run away

Escape from the control of.


Moby thesaurus: abscond, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, clear out, cut and run, cut out, decamp, depart, desert, elope, flee, fly, fugitate, go AWOL, hightail, jump, jump bail, levant, make off ... show more.

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