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Synonyms and Antonyms of bolts
- I bolted as I read the winning lottery numbers
- the cat bolted for the food dish the minute he spied it
barrels, belts, blasts, blazes, blows, bombs [slang], bowls, breezes, bundles, bustles, buzzes, cannonballs, careens, careers, chases, courses, cracks (on), dashes, drives, flies, hares, hastens, hies, highballs, hotfoots (it), humps, hurls, hurries, hurtles, hustles, jets, jumps, motors, nips, pelts, races, rams, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, rustles, scoots, scurries, scuttles, shoots, speeds, steps, tears, travels, trots, whirls, whisks, zips, zooms
- the rabbit bolted when it saw the fox approaching
absconds, clears out, decamps, elopes, escapes, gets (away), gets out, lams, lights out, makes off, mizzles [chiefly British], scarpers [British], scats, scrams, skips (out), skirrs
- bolted out the cuss word without thinking
- the way you bolted those hot dogs, it's no wonder you're feeling a little queasy
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