Synonyms for run away
run away

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1. scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break awayverb

   flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

   "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, get off, move, turn tail, chip, range, break out, run, beat, guide, function, lead, lam, thresh, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, break off, break, break loose, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, get out, get by, secede, thrash, run for, black market, miss, persist, splinter, incline, draw, hightail it, elude, be given, prevail, campaign, get away, tend, chip off, escape, ladder, ply, come off, flail, melt

2. run awayverb

   escape from the control of

   "Industry is running away with us all"

   Synonyms:
   run, fly the coop, hightail it, lam, scat, take to the woods, bunk, break away, turn tail, scarper, escape, head for the hills

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1. run away

   Synonyms:
   flee, escape, take to one's heels, give leg bail, take one's self off

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1. run away

   Synonyms:
   flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond

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1. Abraham Lincoln:

   When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   You can't run away from the numbers, you can't run away from the numbers of people who've died, the number of people getting hospitalized, the surges we're seeing.

3. Tom Tsay:

   At this point, I thought he would run away, but he was just standing here contemplating whether to fight or run away.

4. Lisa Kucharski:

   not a day goes by when I am not thinking of you you are like an open field full of ocean waves – to run through and never get wet but almost. this is the way I want to go home in a place – where the curtains are sails – bulging go break the fence post the houses want to run away

5. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid:

   I don't know how anyone, some of these people who are running for reelection, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, I just don't know how these people can run and say, 'Why I'm supporting this person for president.' And they can't run away from it.