All go awol synonyms
go AWOL
G g verb go awol
- run away β 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.
- abandon β 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.
- depart β When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
- vacate β to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- forsake β to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert: She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.
- betray β If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
- give up β the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- hightail β to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
- fade β to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- skedaddle β to run away hurriedly; flee.
- get β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- jump β to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- scram β to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- quit β to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- leave β to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- decamp β If you decamp, you go away from somewhere secretly or suddenly.
- bolt β A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
- slip β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- vanish β to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- flee β to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
- vamoose β to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
- disappear β to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- split β to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- fly β to move through the air using wings.
- relinquish β to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- tergiversate β to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- abscond β If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission.
- resign β to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- light β a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- jilt β to reject or cast aside (a lover or sweetheart), especially abruptly or unfeelingly.
- renounce β to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- maroon β dark brownish-red.
- walk β to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- duck β 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.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- apostatize β to forsake or abandon one's belief, faith, or allegiance
- beach β A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.
- strand β to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- chuck β When you chuck something somewhere, you throw it there in a casual or careless way.
- beat it β to go away
- clear out β If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- make off β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- pull out β to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- take off β the act of taking.
- cut and run β to make a rapid escape
- dog it β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- duck out β leave secretly
- fly the coop β an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- go south β fail, go bad