All cut and run synonyms

verb cut and run

• run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
• run — execution
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• shoot — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• rush — to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
• travel — to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.
• race — Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland.
• jog — to move or shake with a push or jerk: The horseman jogged the reins lightly.
• sprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
• blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
• vacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
• retire — a movement in which the dancer brings one foot to the knee of the supporting leg and then returns it to the fifth position.
• go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• remove — to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.
• withdraw — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• skip — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
• pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
• double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
• duck — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
• shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
• scoot — to go swiftly or hastily; dart.
• scamper — to run or go hastily or quickly.
• hotfoot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• gallop — to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
• skitter — to go, run, or glide lightly or rapidly.
• course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
• speed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
• hie — to hasten; speed; go in haste.
• trot — (of a horse) to go at a gait between a walk and a run, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs, but not quite simultaneously, so that when the movement is slow one foot at least is always on the ground, and when fast all four feet are momentarily off the ground at once.
• pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
• lope — to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
• spring — String PRocessING language
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• canter — When a horse canters, it moves at a speed that is slower than a gallop but faster than a trot.
• bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
• dart — If a person or animal darts somewhere, they move there suddenly and quickly.
• hurry — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
• whisk — to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
• career — A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life.