What does steal away mean?

steal away means "leave furtively and stealthily".

What is another word for steal away?

Close synonyms include slip away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steal away a common word?

steal away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

steal away — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
leave furtively and stealthily
“The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard”
Synonymsslip away sneak away sneak off sneak out
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What does steal away mean?: steal away means "leave furtively and stealthily".

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