Fleeing
Run away
Run away verb - To get free from a dangerous or confining situation.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Morpheus tells Neo that he can eventually be able to fight the Agents rather than fleeing; Cypher flat out tells him to run away.
Source: Film / The Matrix - Causes a character to run away, perhaps even completely fleeing the battle.
Source: Standard Status Effects - An episode of The Simpsons has Homer get scared and run away from an operation where he was donating a kidney to Grampa (losing them was Homers fault in the first place), and spends the rest of the episode fleeing in shame.
Source: Dirty Coward
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