| VERB | motion | turn tail, scat, run, scarper, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away | flee |
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| Meaning | flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | scat, run, scarper, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away | |
| Narrower | flee, fly, take flight | run away quickly |
| skedaddle | run away, as if in a panic | |
| Broader | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Spanish | correr, escapar, evadir, huir | |
| Catalan | escapar, escapolir-se, evadir, fugir | |
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