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. Mateo Langford:

   Bad things happen in every corner of the world, including in the United States. We just can't run away.

2. Scott Walker:

   I'm a social conservative, as well as economic and fiscal one, so I don't think that the answer is to run away from your position, just make it clear to the American people that this is where you stand.

3. Jamie Lynn:

   Since the day I was born, I've only loved adored and supported my sister. I mean this is my freaking big sister, before any of this bulls-. I don't care if she wants to run away to a rainforest and have zillion babies in the middle of nowhere, or if she wants to come back and dominate the world the way she has done so many times before, because I have nothing to gain or lose either way, this situation does not affect me either way, because I'm only her sister who's only concerned about her happiness.

4. Matt Brandon:

   And that's amazing these men and women are sent to the Chicago police academy, and trained as police officers, and being a former police officer, I know your first instinct is to go to the problem -- not run away from the problem.

5. John Foster Dulles:

   The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.