SKEDADDLING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

skedaddling

verb

present participle of skedaddle

as in retreating

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

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Rivera said officials had received reports of the retreating shoreline in Chiriquí and Veraguas and were coordinating surveillance with Panama’s maritime authorities and security agencies.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Still, following the victory, Johnson quickly opened the door to the idea of Keenum retreating into a backup role behind Bagent.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of retreating

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Raney Aronson-Rath A chronicle of one Syrian daughter’s journey in fleeing war and seeking refuge in Germany, and how over ten years, new pressures and opportunities present themselves.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
Police say the father of one of the children confronted the adult victim and shot her before fleeing the scene.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of fleeing

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Almost all of the birds on Palmyra Atoll rely on the ocean, flying out to sea daily to feed on fish or squid, bringing some back for their young.

— Lauren Sommer, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure via Facebook While riding Nitro, riders can see the Philadelphia skyline for a glimpse before flying down a 215-foot drop.

— Nikki DeMentri, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of flying

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Dyson built the CameraJet around 16 million lines of code and a model trained on 470,000 dental images, bolting a camera, pump, fluid system and software onto a device people have historically cleaned with nylon bristles.

— Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
Now every SaaS company that spent the last three years bolting AI features onto legacy infrastructure just got very expensive news.

— Rafael Flores, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

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Ties between the two countries remain strained over their long-running Himalayan border dispute, which erupted into a deadly skirmishes in 2020 that saw soldiers from both sides use rocks and iron rods in brutal hand-to-hand combat.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026
Lighting, of course, is all-LED, with the headlights coming with daytime running lights, with the system automatically switching between daylight running and low beam as conditions require.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2026

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