take flight

1. Run away quickly (synset 202079709)
   "He threw down his gun and fled"
   is a type of: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   subtypes:

   • break - make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
   • stampede - run away in a stampede
   • abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off - run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
   • elope, run off - run away secretly with one's beloved
   • break loose, escape, get away - run away from confinement
   • high-tail, hightail - retreat at full speed
   • defect, desert - desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
   same as: flee, fly

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