HIGHTAIL IT Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

hightail (it)

verb

ˈhī-ˌtāl

Definition of hightail (it)

as in to flee

to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening when a fight broke out, we hightailed it out of the bar

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Verb

The driver, who is accused of fleeing the scene, is now facing charges.

— Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Assad and his brother Maher fled to Russia after the government’s fall in December 2024 and received political asylum.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of flee

Verb

When Aemond refuses to fight, Aegon conscripts him to fly to Tumbleton to deal with their uppity little brother.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Some more images show Kidman, Bullock, 62, King, 26, and Williams, 29, wearing flowing gowns while hooked onto wires, seemingly filming a scene that involves flying, in front of a blue screen.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of fly

Verb

Two Ohio men accused of shoplifting from a Kroger were pulled over by Miami Township police on July 27, and one of them, later identified as Kaamil O'Berry, bolted from the car and fled on foot, according to WKRC.

— Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Those changes stuck because they were built into how the business runs, not bolted onto a marketing model.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of bolt

Verb

Founded in 1968 to run exchanges with the Soviet bloc, IREX was built for precisely the kind of competition the United States now faces again.

— James K. Glassman, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Investigators analyzed data from more than 1,700 participants in a long-running study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of run

Verb

For those looking to escape the hordes, the Park Lane, set north of central Copenhagen, offers a pocket of peace.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
To escape the CapEx trap, health systems must demand AI architectures that are native to the cloud, inherently interoperable and designed for execution, not just conversation.

— Sridhar Yerramreddy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of escape

Verb

Later, in a nearby vacant lot, prosecutors said a Ring doorbell camera captured the sound of a single gunshot and then Nunnally and another person running away.

— Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
In the area where her body was found, the defendant was captured on a Ring surveillance camera running away after the sound of a gunshot, Pekara said.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of run away

Verb

The Mets lost the lead in the bottom of the seventh when Dedniel Nuñez gave up two unearned runs, but rallied in the ninth to take two runs off closer Cade Smith, tying the game at 5-5.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
The Angels added an insurance run off Brewers left-hander DL Hall in the eighth when Denzer Guzman walked, took second on a groundout, third on a wild pitch and scored on Zach Neto’s two-out RBI infield single.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of run off

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