V. recede, go, move back, move from, retire, withdraw,
shrink, back off, come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away, depart, retreat, move off, stand off, sheer off, fall back, stand aside, run away, remove,
shunt, distance
Phr. distance oneself from a person
N. departure,
decession,
decampment,
embarkation, outset, start, removal,
exit, exodus,
hejira, flight, leave taking,
valediction,
adieu,
farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista, stirrup cup,
valedictorian, starting point, starting post, point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation, port of embarkation, airport, take-off point, taxiing runway,
runway, launching pad, spaceport
V. depart, go away, take one's departure, set out, set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off, start, issue, march out,
debouch, go forth, sally forth, sally, set forward, be gone, hail from, leave a place,
quit,
vacate,
evacuate,
abandon, go off the stage, make one's exit, retire, withdraw, remove, vamoose*, vamose*, go one's way, go along, go from home, take flight, take wing, spring, fly,
flit, wing one's flight, fly away, whip away,
embark, go on board, go aboard, set sail' put to sea, go to sea, sail, take ship, hoist blue peter, get under way, weigh anchor, strike tents,
decamp, walk one's chalks, cut one's stick, take leave, say good bye, bid goodbye, disappear,
abscond,
entrain, inspan
Adv. whence, hence, thence, with a foot in the stirrup, on the wing, on the move
Int. begone,
&c. (ejection) 297,
farewell,
adieu, goodbye, good day, au revoir, fare you well, god bless you, god speed, all aboard, auf wiedersehen, au plaisir de vous revoir, bon voyage, gluckliche reise, vive valeque
Death Roget’s Thesaurus §360 N. death,
decease,
demise, dissolution,
departure,
obit, release, rest,
quietus, fall, loss,
bereavement, mortality,
morbidity, end of life, cessation of life, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, stygian shore, king of terrors, king death, death,
doom, "hell's grim tyrant",
euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature,
suffocation,
asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow,
necrology, bills of mortality,
obituary, death song
V. die,
expire, perish, meet one's death, meet one's end, pass away, be taken, yield one's breath, resign one's breath, resign one's being, resign one's life, end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career, breathe one's last, cease to live, cease to breathe, depart this life, be no more, go off, drop off, pop off, lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life, drop into the grave, sink into the grave, close one's eyes, fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead, break one's neck, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be all over with one, pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep, go the way of all flesh, hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips, join the greater number, join the majority, come to dust, turn to dust, cross the stygian ferry, cross the bar, go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to davy jones's locker, go to the wall, receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle, come to an untimely end, catch one's death, go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes, die a violent death
Adj. dead, lifeless, deceased,
demised, departed,
defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more,
exanimate,
inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying,
moribund, morient|,
hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave,
stillborn,
mortuary, deadly
Adv. post obit, post mortem
Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, death knocks at the door, death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, "in adamantine chains shall death be bound", mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, "spake the grisly terror", "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep", nothing is certain but death and taxes
V. disappear,
vanish,
dissolve,
fade, melt away, pass, go,
avaunt,
evaporate,
vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave "not a rack behind", go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of,
efface Adj. disappearing,
evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone
Int. vanish, disappear,
avaunt, get lost, get out of here, words relating to the intellectual faculties
N. abstention,
abstinence, for bearance,
refraining, inaction,
neutrality,
avoidance,
evasion,
elusion,
seclusion, avolation|, flight, escape, retreat,
recoil,
departure,
rejection,
shirker,
truant,
fugitive,
refugee,
runaway,
runagate,
maroon V. abstain,
refrain,
spare, not attempt, not do, maintain the even tenor of one's way,
eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with, keep aloof keep off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off, take no part in, have no hand in, avoid,
shun, steer clear of, keep clear of, fight shy of, keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance, keep out of the way, get out of the way,
evade,
elude, turn away from, set one's face against, deny oneself, shrink back, hang back, hold back, draw back,
recoil, retire,
flinch,
blink,
blench,
shy,
shirk,
dodge,
parry, make way for, give place to, beat a retreat, turn tail, turn one's back, take to one's heels,
runaway, run for one's life, cut and run, be off like a shot, fly,
flee, fly away, flee away, run away from, take flight, take to flight, desert,
elope, make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off, break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from, slip cable, part company, turn one's heel, sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take french leave, slope,
decamp,
flit,
bolt,
abscond,
levant,
skedaddle,
absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce, escape, go away,
abandon,
reject, lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance, throw off the scent, play at hide and seek
Adj. unsought, lest, unattempted, in order to avoid, avoiding, neutral, shy of,
elusive,
evasive,
fugitive,
runaway,
shy, wild
Int. forbear, keep off, hands off, sauve qui peut,
[French: every man for himself], devil take the hindmost, phr, "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme"
