SCRAM Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

scram

verb

Definition of scram

as in to escape

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Recent Examples of scram Tony Vitello didn’t get through the first inning before being told to scram, thrown out by home plate umpire Ryan Blakney for arguing a check-swing call. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026 The chicks reportedly also told Fiona the squirrel to scram—just like mom. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2026 As of now, one man sits on a small dock off each island, telling onlookers to scram. — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019

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Verb

This comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their AI models escaped their sandboxes and attempted to hack other companies and access their computer systems.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
The incidents range in scope from agents escaping their sandboxes and gaining access to the internet to agents deleting conversations so humans can't monitor their activity, Mills said.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of escape

Verb

Here was my chance to get out of London, this counterfeit of death with its everywhere rage and its moribund culture and its smug population and its streets steeped in resentment and the sky pressing down like a chloroform rag.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Two immigration officers get out of a truck, their faces covered, and one orders Good to get out of the car.

— Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of get out

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After Barbie is transported, the pair team up with the Nutcracker to track down the Rat King, who has absconded with a locket—one that Barbie and her friend Nikki (who later transforms into the Sugarplum Princess) received on Christmas.

— Parents, Parents, 14 Sep. 2026
There were no revelations about FBI surveillance or any proof that Shakur actually absconded to Cuba.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of abscond

Verb

The pressure is becoming too much to bear, and one by one her circle of friends decamp to the only slightly safer environs of pre-war Paris.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
Many locals decamp to the mountains, while their friends and colleagues across the border in France use the month to take their annual holidays.

— Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of decamp

Verb

A couple flying to Las Vegas to elope ended up getting married at 35,000 feet after a Southwest Airlines crew turned their flight into a wedding.

— Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Written and directed by Achyuth Vinayak, the film released in theaters in 2023, following a couple whose plan to elope is complicated when the man’s sister decides to elope as well.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of elope

Verb

At a museum in eastern France, two men disguised with wigs used a sledgehammer and a hammer to smash a display case and make off with a 2,500-year-old gold necklace.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
The suspect in a 2022 homicide believed there was a large amount of currency hidden in a chicken stand on Foothill Boulevard, but killed a man only to make off with a paltry $110, according to police.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of make off

Verb

Taylor Tomlinson will host After Midnight, the show that is replacing The Late Late Show now that James Corden has scarpered off to old Blighty.

— Vulture, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2023
Idrissa Gueye has scarpered, but that void was instantly filled by Mainz midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin - while Moise Kean, goodness knows how, has signed from Juventus to sharpen things up front.

— SI.com, SI.com, 5 Aug. 2019

Definition of scarper

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No studio would finance the feature, about a whorehouse exhibitionist who lams it after being framed for murder — so director Melvin Van Peebles financed it himself with a boost from Bill Cosby, who gave him a $50,000 loan.

— Andrew Lawrence, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
One of those classic films that’s as good as its reputation (and maybe even better), Billy Wilder’s high-spirited comedy stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who have to lam it after witnessing a mob crime.

— Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023

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