| Main Entry: | elope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away to be married |
Synonyms: |
abscond, bolt, decamp, disappear, escape, flee, fly, go secretly, go to Gretna Green, leave, run off, skip*, slip away, slip out, steal away |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break away from |
Synonyms: |
abscond, avoid, bail out, bolt, burst out, circumvent, cut and run, cut loose, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, dodge, double, duck, duck out, elope, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly, fly the coop, get away with, get off, go scot-free, leave, make getaway, make off, make oneself scarce, pass, play hooky, run, run away, run off, run out on, shun, skip, slip, slip away, steal away, take a powder, take flight, take on the lam, vanish, work out of, wriggle out |
Antonyms: |
capture, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depart, abandon physically |
Synonyms: |
abscond, beat it, break away, clear out, come away, cut out, decamp, defect, desert, disappear, ditch*, elope, embark, emigrate, escape, exit, flee, flit, fly, forsake, give the slip, go, go away, go forth, head out, issue, migrate, move, move out, part, pull out, push off, quit, relinquish, remove oneself, retire, ride off, run along, sally, say goodbye, scram, set out, slip out, split*, start, step down, take a hike, take leave, take off, vacate, vamoose, vanish, walk out, withdraw |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
Antonyms: |
come, go |
| Main Entry: | lam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | escape |
Synonyms: |
abscond, avoid, bail out, blow*, bolt*, break out, burst out, circumvent, cut and run, cut loose, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, dodge*, double, duck, duck out, elope, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly the coop, fly*, get away, get away with, get off, give someone the slip, go scot-free, leave, make a getaway, make getaway, make off, make oneself scarce, pass, play hooky, run, run away, run off, run out on, shun, skip, slip away, slip*, steal away, take a powder, take flight, take it on the lam, take on the lam, vanish, work out of, wriggle out |
| Concept: | Escape. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion (avoidance); retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity., [Means of escape] loophole (opening) [more]; path; refuse; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape., reprieve (deliverance); liberation. refugee (fugitive) [more].
-verbs
escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm (safe); escape scot- free., elude, make off (avoid) [more];. march off (go away) [more]; give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of., disappear, vanish.
-adjectives
.escaping, escaped stolen away, fled.
-phrases
the bird has flown the coop.
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