FLEEING Synonyms

• the act of leaving secretly or without explanation

• an instance of traveling by air

• moving swiftly

• hurried and brief

• a sudden or mysterious disappearance

• a sudden disappearance from sight

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment

• arid land with little or no vegetation

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

• leave behind

• run away secretly with one's beloved

• the act of escaping physically

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• an avoidance of danger or difficulty

• a means or way of escaping

• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

• the discharge of a fluid from some container

• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

• run away from confinement

• fail to experience

• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• issue or leak, as from a small opening

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• escape, either physically or mentally

• practice evasion

• use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid

• retreat at full speed

• a rapid escape (as by criminals)

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• give a thrashing to; beat hard

• a hasty flight

• run away, as if in a panic

• a gait in which steps and hops alternate

• a mistake resulting from neglect

• bypass

• intentionally fail to attend

• jump lightly

• leave suddenly

• bound off one point after another

• cause to skip over a surface

• the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

• two-winged insects characterized by active flight

• flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent

• an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth

• (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air

• fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect

• (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

• travel through the air; be airborne

• move quickly or suddenly

• operate an airplane

• transport by aeroplane

• cause to fly or float

• be dispersed or disseminated

• change quickly from one emotional state to another

• pass away rapidly

• travel in an airplane

• display in the air or cause to float

• run away quickly

• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft

• hit a fly

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• run away quickly