SKEDADDLED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

skedaddled

verb

past tense of skedaddle

as in retreated

to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening we skedaddled as soon as we saw the snake entering our campsite

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While that unfolded, Justin Crawford retreated to the Phillies dugout.

— Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
When the Hills couple faced financial issues after the show ended, the two retreated to Pratt’s parents’ beach home in Carpinteria, California, to get back to regular life.

— Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026

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Chow, Lee and Ho were prominent figures within Hong Kong’s now-defunct democracy movement, which has seen most of its leaders either jailed, fled overseas or fallen silent.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
By the time the curtain came down after the first act, much of the audience could wait no more and fled for the exits.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of fled

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As such, most of its parts are off-the-shelf, panels and interior components are bolted on, and there's no proprietary software locking owner-operators out of diagnosing and fixing their vehicles themselves.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 16 Aug. 2026
The horse in question, Samson, bolted from a standstill at Cherry Hill on June 17, after Mahajan in his family, who were visiting from India, had climbed into the carriage after a photo had been taken but before the carriage horse driver was aboard.

— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

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The backstory Iva and Renato are the third generation of Iva’s family to run the business, started by Iva’s great-uncle Zorko and his wife Rita (merging their names to create Zori) back in 1947.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
Nakase rolled with the bench unit for much of the fourth quarter, asking Kaitlyn Chen to run point and Hayes to create off the dribble.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

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