SKIP OUT Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

skip (out)

verb

Definition of skip (out)

as in to get (away)

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Speakers urge early votes A series of speakers on stage pushed a message to get out the vote ahead of the midterm elections in November.

— Dominick Williams, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
Over the next five years, with the loss of conference championship games, the network would pay for those leagues to get out of marketing agreements, along with the revenue generated from those same conference title weekends.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of get out

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Just hours after the Louvre heist last October –– which saw thieves strike during broad daylight and make off with Napoleonic-era treasures –– another French museum was similarly targeted.

— Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
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

Definition of make off

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The turmoil from Moore’s Michigan conduct continues to linger, 10 months later, but the process of clearing out his office in Schembechler Hall went remarkably swift.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
During the day, the rooftop bed lifts up to clear out standing room below.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of clear out

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As the comet rotates, fresh ice enters the sunlight and sublimates; the escaping gas then drags entrained dust particles away from the nucleus.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
In July, two of OpenAI’s models escaped a testing environment and hacked the open-source AI platform Hugging Face.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of escape

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