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Synonyms and Antonyms of running away
- ran away from an unhappy marriage
avoiding, eluding, evading, losing, shunning
decamping, departing, eloping, exiting, going, leaving, moving, pulling out, quitting, sallying (forth), shoving (off), taking off, walking out
bringing off, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, redeeming, releasing, rescuing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering
- the child runs away from large dogs
absconding, clearing out, decamping, eloping, escaping, getting (away), getting out, lamming, lighting out, making off, mizzling [chiefly British], scarpering [British], scatting, scramming, skipping (out), skirring
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