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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. caper, spring, leap, hop, trip, frisk, gambol, frolic; omit, pass over, stay away; ricochet; slang, decamp, play truant. See neglect, absence.
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(Roget's IV) v.
Syn. jump, caper, gambol, leap, bound, hop, ricochet; see also jump 1 .
Syn.- skip suggests a springing forward lightly and quickly, leaping on alternate feet, and, of inanimate things, deflection from a surface in a series of jumps; bound implies longer, more vigorous leaps, as in running, or by an object thrown along the ground; hop suggests a single short jump, as on one leg, or a series of short, relatively jerky jumps; ricochet is used of an inanimate object that has been thrown or shot and that bounds or skips in glancing deflection from a surface
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
1. hop bound, spring, leap, caper, romp, jump, cavort, gambol, prance, frisk, bounce.
2. skim bounce, ricochet, skate.
3. overlook pass over, omit, exclude, leave out, forget about, disregard, nevermind, ignore.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To bound lightly: hop, skitter, spring, trip. See MOVE. 2. To strike a surface at such an angle as to be deflected: carom, dap, glance, graze, ricochet, skim. See STRIKE. 3. To cease consideration or treatment of: dismiss, drop, give over, give up. Idioms: have done with, wash one's hands of. See KEEP. 4. Informal. To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation. Also used with out: abscond, break out, decamp, escape, flee, fly, get away, run away. Slang: lam. Regional: absquatulate. Idioms: blow (or fly) the coop, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam. See FREE. 5. Informal. To fail to attend on purpose: cut, truant. Idioms: go AWOL, play hooky (or truant). See SEEK. II noun A light bounding movement: hop, spring. See MOVE.

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