Synonyms of the word

lam

• n. Used in the expression on the lam to mean "on the run" (after the dated verb), when a person is fleeing…
• v. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
• v. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
• n. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

escape

• v. (intransitive) To get free, to free oneself.
• v. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• v. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• v. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted…
• v. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
• n. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
• n. (computing) escape key.
• n. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
• n. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
• n. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
• n. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
• n. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
• n. (obsolete) A sally.
• n. (architecture) An apophyge.

flail

• n. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece…
• n. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint…
• v. (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
• v. (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To thresh.
• v. (intransitive) To move like a flail.

flight

• n. The act of flying.
• n. An instance of flying.
• n. A collective term for doves or swallows.
• n. A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or…
• n. A set of stairs or an escalator. A series of stairs between landings.
• n. A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
• n. A feather on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
• n. A paper plane.
• n. (cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air - concerns its speed, trajectory and drift.
• n. The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
• n. An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
• n. An air force unit.
• n. Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full…
• n. (engineering) The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
• adj. (obsolete) Fast, swift.
• v. (cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than…
• v. (sports, by extension, transitive) To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or…
• n. The act of fleeing.

getaway

• n. A means of escape.
• n. The effecting of an escape.
• n. A vacation or holiday or the destination for one.
• adj. Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

run

• v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
• v. (fluids) To flow.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
• v. (social) To carry out an activity.
• v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
• v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
• v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
• v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
• v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
• v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
• v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
• v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
• v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
• v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
• v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
• v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
• v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
• v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
• v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
• v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
• v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
• v. To have growth or development.
• v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
• v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
• v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
• v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
• n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
• n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
• n. A pleasure trip.
• n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
• n. Migration (of fish).
• n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
• n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
• n. A (regular) trip or route.
• n. The route taken while running or skiing.
• n. The distance sailed by a ship.
• n. A voyage.
• n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
• n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
• n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
• n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
• n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
• n. A trial.
• n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
• n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
• n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
• n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
• n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
• n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
• n. Any sudden large demand for something.
• n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
• n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
• n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
• n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
• n. (cricket) A point scored.
• n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
• n. Unrestricted use of.
• n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
• n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
• n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
• n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
• n. A pair or set of millstones.
• n. (video games) A playthrough.
• n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
• n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
• n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
• n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
• adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
• adj. Cast in a mould.
• adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
• adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

scarper

• v. (Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

scat

• n. A tax; tribute.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
• n. (biology) Animal excrement; dung.
• n. (slang) Heroin.
• n. (slang, obsolete) Whiskey.
• n. (slang) Coprophilia.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
• n. (music, jazz) Scat singing.
• v. (music, jazz) To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative…
• v. (colloquial) To leave quickly (often used in the imperative).
• v. (colloquial) An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

thrash

• v. To beat mercilessly.
• v. To defeat utterly.
• v. To thresh.
• v. To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
• v. (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior…
• v. (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
• n. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
• n. (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical…

thresh

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating,…
• v. (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.