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scarpering

verb

present participle of scarper, British
as in exiting
to leave a place often for another I went looking for Sally at the pub, but she'd scarpered

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scarpering
  1. exiting
  2. departing
  3. moving
  4. getting
  5. going
  6. fleeing
  7. escaping
  8. evacuating
Verb
  • The shortstop is day to day after exiting Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians with a left wrist bruise.
    — LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Jonathan Bowlan got two outs in the eighth before exiting due to right groin tightness with a 2-2 count on Francisco Lindor.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of exiting
Verb
  • Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, warned on Thursday before departing for Ukraine that Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Kyiv, among them Poland.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, warned on Thursday before departing for Ukraine that Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Kyiv, among them Poland.
    — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of departing
Verb
  • Bank of America, Citigroup and Apollo underwrote the buyout debt package, one of the biggest ever and with many moving pieces, to fund the takeover.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This is just one season, but Guerrero’s outlook needs to change just as much as his production moving forward on the remaining 13 years of his deal.
    — Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of moving
Verb
  • Storytelling in the modern world is now often about getting the most clicks and attention.
    — Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The lack of a real-time conversation means many patients aren’t getting the type of care recommended by medical societies that prescribe GLP-1s, including discussions about weight-loss goals, past efforts and eating disorders.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of getting
Verb
  • But this is Mahomes, Kelce, Jones and coach Andy Reid coming to town with three Super Bowls under their belt and a determination to return to contending form early this season after going 6-11 last year.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Dramatic cuffs added more angles to the look, while the buttons going undone at the waist created a touch of tension that transitioned to Edgar-Jones’ skirt.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of going
Verb
  • The painting belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer who was fleeing the Netherlands for England on a ship in 1940 during World War II.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This type of maritime migration is different from the once-common arrivals of rafts and other homemade vessels that Cubans are known to use to escape their homeland, and the overloaded freighters and sailboats used by people fleeing Haiti.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of fleeing
Verb
  • The victim can be seen running full speed away from a man chasing him down with a knife before escaping into a building in a harrowing video taken from a surveillance camera, posted on X by Crown Heights Shmira.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • There’s no escaping the feeling of this mass, and no magic feats of engineering, like with Rivian or various German automakers, will mask this.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of escaping
Verb
  • By then, the fire was starting to impact houses, as people were evacuating.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Firefighters searched the building while attacking the flames, evacuating residents in areas directly threatened by the fire.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of evacuating
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“Scarpering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarpering. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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