v. |
[1] |
get away
,
break out/free
,
bolt
,
flee
,
fly
,
run away/off
,
elope
,
decamp
,
abscond
,
steal/slip off/away
,
take to one's heels
,
take French leave
,
disappear
,
vanish
,
(Brit) levant
,
(Colloq) take off
,
clear out
,
cut and run
,
duck out
,
make oneself scarce
,
do a disappearing act
,
(Brit) do a moonlight flit
,
(US) vamoose
,
hightail it
,
skedaddle
,
(US/Canadian) skip (town)
,
fly the coop
,
cut out
,
(Slang) vamoose
,
(Brit) do a bunk
,
bugger off
,
mizzle off
,
(US/Canadian) scram
,
blow
,
lam out
,
take it on the lam
,
take a (run-out) powder
,
(Mainly Australian) shoot through
|
[2] |
evade
,
elude
,
avoid
,
dodge
|
[3] |
drain
,
leak
,
issue
,
seep
,
discharge
,
emanate
|
[4] |
elude
,
evade
,
baffle
,
stump
,
mystify
,
puzzle
,
be forgotten by
,
be beyond (someone)
|
[5] |
get away
,
break loose
|
[6] |
miss
|
[7] |
get off
,
get away
,
get by
,
get out
|
[8] |
elude
|
[9] |
get away
|
[10] |
scat
,
run
,
scarper
,
turn tail
,
lam
,
run away
,
hightail it
,
bunk
,
head for the hills
,
take to the woods
,
fly the coop
,
break away
|
|
n. |
[1] |
flight
|
[2] |
escapism
|
[3] |
evasion
,
dodging
|
[4] |
flight
,
getaway
,
departure
,
decampment
,
bolt
,
jailbreak
,
prison-break
,
(Colloq) break
,
break-out
|
[5] |
distraction
,
relief
,
diversion
,
recreation
|
[6] |
leakage
,
leak
,
leakage
,
leaking
,
seepage
,
outflow
,
seeping
,
drainage
,
draining
,
leak
,
discharge
,
outpouring
,
outflow
,
effluence
,
efflux
,
effluxion
|
[7] |
safety valve
,
relief valve
,
escape valve
,
escape cock
|
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