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past tense of run away
Synonyms & Antonyms of ran away
1
to get free from a dangerous or confining situation
- ran away from an unhappy marriage
Synonyms for ran away
Words Related to ran away
- decamped,
- departed,
- eloped,
- exited,
- left,
- moved,
- pulled out,
- quit
- (also quitted),
- sallied (forth),
- shoved (off),
- took off,
- walked out,
- went
- brought off,
- emancipated,
- enfranchised,
- freed,
- liberated,
- loosed,
- loosened,
- manumitted,
- redeemed,
- released,
- rescued,
- sprang
- (or sprung),
- unbound,
- uncaged,
- unchained,
- unfettered
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2
to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening
- the child runs away from large dogs
Synonyms for ran away
- bolted,
- broke,
- bugged out,
- fled,
- flew,
- hightailed (it),
- ran
- (also chiefly dialectal run),
- ran off,
- retreated,
- skedaddled
Words Related to ran away
- absconded,
- cleared out,
- decamped,
- eloped,
- escaped,
- got (away),
- got out,
- lammed,
- lit
- (or lighted out),
- made off,
- mizzled
- [chiefly British],
- scarpered
- [British],
- scatted,
- scrammed,
- skipped (out),
- skirred
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