| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation: abscond, break out, decamp, escape, flee, get away, run away. Informal : skip (out). Slang : lam. Regional : absquatulate. Idioms: blow (or fly) the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam. See FREE. 2. To move or cause to move about while being fixed at one edge: flap, flutter, wave. See REPETITION. 3. To move through the air with or as if with wings: flap, flit, flitter, flutter, sail, wing. See MOVE. 4. To pass quickly and lightly through the air: dart, float, sail, shoot, skim. See MOVE. 5. To react explosively or suddenly: flare (up). See EXPLOSION. 6. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Chiefly British : nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE.
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