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Definition of Sneak away
1. Verb. Leave furtively and stealthily. "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"
Generic synonyms: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave
Definition of Sneak away
1. Verb. To leave a place, or a meeting, without being seen or heard ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sneak Away
Literary usage of Sneak away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"When incubating the female usually does not fly off until almost stepped upon,
though sometimes when the alarm is given by the male she will sneak away from ..."
2. Goethe's Egmont: Together with Schiller's Essays, Des Grafen Lamoral Von by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller (1898)
"The citizens who sneak away in fear at the mere sight of a Spanish garrison are
not the men who will rise up in arms in defense of their favorite leader. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... to sneak away, to slip away stealthily, Loth.] 4. To »mule in, to use wheedling
or cajoling; means. One who curries favour with another, ..."
4. The Musical World (1855)
"Simply this, that a man of genius may take his exercise to Oxford, quail under
the sublime ordeal, and sneak away again, with only the world to appreciate ..."
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