SCARPERING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

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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Sally Habbershaw is exiting Mediawan after less than a year to become President of Global Distribution at the BBC’s commercial arm.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
Sharon Levy is exiting Banijay’s Endemol Shine North America after nearly a decade at the company — including most recently as CEO.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of exiting

Verb

Thanksgiving The most expensive and popular day when departing for the holiday is Wednesday.

— Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
On the heels of Steven Kolb departing the Council of Fashion Designers of America, CFDA vice chair Aurora James and her nonprofit, the Fifteen Percent Pledge, have been sued for fraud.

— Shane O’Neill, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of departing

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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

But when her character — saucy British writer Constance Clavinger — turns out to be a handful (getting drunk at the airport bar, for starters), Homer struggles to get her to the school on time.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
As a girl growing up in the 1970s, Griffin recalls how her parents and other neighbors in the two-street patch of homes did not let their children play at the nearby Fannie Robinson Park after some of them started developing rashes or getting sick.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of getting

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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

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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

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