made off

verb

past tense of make off
as in got (away)

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  1. got out
  2. cleared out
  3. escaped
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  • Igoe said the suspect vehicle then stopped on Fulton Avenue, where the suspect got out and started pacing back and forth with a knife in his hand in front of his vehicle.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect got out of the vehicle and began pacing in front of it, authorities said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of got out
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  • The family could have cleared out a decaying bungalow and built something simpler in its place.
    — Nuriyah Johar, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026
  • At Lincoln Bay, Duke said their elevators sensed water and immediately went to the 10th floor, where they were locked in place and unusable until contractors cleared out the pit below.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of cleared out
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  • Shawn Curtis and his dog Lux escaped through Curtis' bedroom window when waves overtook his apartment.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
  • That, to me, is the main reason why machine learning escaped a scientific crisis.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
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