backrush
bug out
cut and run
postfledging
scutter
fly off
skedaddle
abduction
fall behind
cut-and-run
drop off
fall back
retreating
recede
retreatingness
fleecily
hump it
on the trot
pull off
retrogress
wandering
off like a bride's nightie
morrice
beetle
di di mau
retreater
distance
lurchy
onrushing
pull back
scram
make off
climbdown
roll back
recedingly
show a clean pair of heels
hightail
high-tail
fugitive
run-awayer
flee
leg it
nash
runaway
break away
sallying forth
outflee
fuggily
sally
outrush
break
break out
vamoose
flight
on the heels of
forth-
take water
absquatulate
beway
bounce off
retiral
ran away
fleet
retreatism
morendo
off the rails
take flight
spread
scarper
diffuse
fugacious
fan out
run off
head off
do the dash
fly
spread out
aflight
fadeout
on the run
spur
outflight
offshore
rabbit
recessive
pack
outbound
beat feet
flap
drag ass
hurried
run for the hills
midstride
postfledging
off like a bride's nightie
lurchy
onrushing
fugitive
runaway
fugacious
aflight
offshore
recessive
outbound
hurried
fleecily
recedingly
fuggily
morendo
midstride
backrush
bug out
scutter
abduction
cut-and-run
retreating
retreatingness
skedaddle
wandering
retreater
climbdown
run-awayer
sallying forth
sally
outrush
flight
beway
retiral
retreatism
fadeout
outflight
cut and run
fly off
skedaddle
fall behind
drop off
fall back
recede
hump it
pull off
retrogress
morrice
beetle
di di mau
distance
pull back
scram
make off
roll back
show a clean pair of heels
hightail
high-tail
flee
leg it
nash
break away
outflee
sally
break
break out
vamoose
take water
absquatulate
bounce off
ran away
fleet
take flight
spread
scarper
diffuse
fan out
run off
head off
do the dash
fly
spread out
spur
rabbit
pack
beat feet
flap
drag ass
run for the hills
noun
- Leading away; a carrying away.
- A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
- The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
adv
verb
- To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
- To beat with a heavy mallet.
- To loom over; to extend or jut.
- To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
adj
noun
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb
- To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
- To lose interest in a specific issue.
- To move away (from) someone or something.
noun
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
- A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
- Length or interval of time.
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
- The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- Remoteness in succession or relation.
- The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
verb
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
adj
- Having run away; escaped; fugitive.
- Having escaped from the control of the rider or driver.
- Unchecked; rampant.
- Deserting or revolting against one's group, duties, expected conduct, or the like, especially to establish or join a rival group, change one's life drastically, etc.
- Accelerating out of control.
- Easily won, as a contest.
- Pertaining to or accomplished by running away or eloping.
noun
- An overwhelming victory.
- An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.
- A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.
- A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control.
- The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams.
verb
- move away or escape suddenly
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- interrupt a continued activity
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- cease an action temporarily
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
- The act of fleeing.
- An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- A paper airplane.
- The act of flying.
- A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
- A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- An air force unit.
- Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- A series of stairs between landings.
- An instance of flying.
- The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- A collective term for doves or swallows.
- A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
verb
prefix
verb
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To move or change in position.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
noun
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- Any group of associated items.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
adj
verb
verb
- move outward
- distribute or disperse widely
- become distributed or widespread
- spread across or over
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- cause to become widely known
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- cover by spreading something over
- distribute over a surface in a layer
adj
- distributed or spread over a considerable extent
- prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out
- fully extended in width
noun
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- decorative cover for a bed
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
verb
verb
- run away quickly
- 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
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- hit a fly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
adj
noun
- 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
verb
- To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- To put spurs on.
noun
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
adj
- Moving away from the shore.
- Located in the sea away from the coast.
- Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
noun
- Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
- An area or or portion of sea away from the shore.
- An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
adv
verb
verb
- To flee.
- Confound; damn; drat.
- To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- To hunt rabbits.
noun
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
- A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- The meat from this animal.
- The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
verb
- To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- to load; to encumber.
- To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- To load with a pack
- To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
- To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
noun
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A multitude.
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A full set of playing cards
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- A flock of knots.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
verb
- To move loosely back and forth.
- To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
noun
- A side fin of a ray.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- A hinged leaf.
- The labia, the vulva.
- A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
verb
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