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keeping aloof synonyms

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  • disregard
  • freedom
  • impulse
  • licentiousness
  • recklessness
  • spontaneity
  • thoughtlessness
  • uninhibitedness
  • unrestraint
  • wantonness
  • wildness
  • abstain
  • avert
  • bypass
  • circumlocute
  • circumvent
  • deflect
  • desist
  • ditch
  • divert
  • dodge
  • duck
  • elude
  • escape
  • eschew
  • aback
  • abaft
  • aft
  • after
  • astern
  • back of
  • backward
  • behind
  • final
  • following
  • hind
  • hindmost
  • in the wake of
  • posterior
  • back out
  • backpedal
  • crawfish
  • pull back
  • retreat
  • withdraw
  • abandon
  • accede
  • acquiesce
  • admit
  • back off
  • back out
  • back pedal
  • backtrack
  • balk
  • beg off
  • bow out
  • cancel
  • cave in
  • chicken out
  • abandon
  • back down
  • balk
  • give up
  • recede
  • retire
  • surrender
  • withdraw
  • yield
  • avoid
  • back down
  • back pedal
  • beg off
  • blow it off
  • cancel
  • chicken out
  • cop out
  • get cold feet
  • give up
  • go back on
  • recant
  • renege
  • resign
  • about-face
  • back
  • change
  • fall back
  • rethink
  • retract
  • retreat
  • retrocede
  • retrograde
  • reverse
  • withdraw
  • go away
  • hurry away
  • leave
  • scram
  • shoo
  • skedaddle
  • vamoose
  • beat it
  • bolt
  • break camp
  • clear out
  • depart
  • disappear
  • escape
  • evacuate
  • flee
  • head for the hills
  • hightail
  • hit the road
  • make a break for it
  • make oneself scarce
  • abandon
  • abdicate
  • absent
  • beat it
  • blast off
  • cut and run
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • desert
  • disappear
  • emigrate
  • escape
  • evacuate
  • exit
  • abstract
  • back off
  • back out
  • cut loose
  • cut out
  • detach
  • disassociate
  • disconnect
  • disentangle
  • disjoin
  • dissociate
  • disunite
  • divide
  • drop out
  • deduct
  • discount
  • pull back
  • recede
  • recoil
  • reel in
  • retreat
  • sheathe
  • shrink
  • start back
  • subtract
  • take away
  • withdraw
  • abatement
  • backflow
  • decay
  • decrease
  • degeneration
  • depreciation
  • deterioration
  • diminution
  • drop
  • dwindling
  • fading away
  • flagging
  • going out
  • lessening
  • baffle
  • be beyond someone
  • beat around the bush
  • bilk
  • circumvent
  • confound
  • cop out
  • ditch
  • dodge
  • double
  • duck
  • eschew
  • evade
  • flee
  • AWOL
  • abdication
  • avoidance
  • beat
  • bolt
  • break
  • breakout
  • bypassing
  • circumvention
  • decampment
  • deliverance
  • departure
  • desertion
  • disappearance
  • abandon
  • bail out
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • depart
  • desert
  • discharge
  • displace
  • eject
  • expel
  • forsake
  • hightail
  • leave
  • move out
  • avoid
  • baffle
  • balk
  • beat around bush
  • beg the question
  • bypass
  • cavil
  • circumvent
  • conceal
  • confuse
  • cop out
  • deceive
  • decline
  • dodge
  • back
  • draw back
  • give back
  • recede
  • recoil
  • retire
  • retrocede
  • retrograde
  • surrender
  • withdraw
  • yield
  • bend
  • circumvolution
  • cockle
  • convolution
  • corrugation
  • crease
  • crimp
  • crinkle
  • dog's ear
  • flection
  • flexure
  • furrow
  • gather
  • gathering
  • abandon
  • accede
  • acquiesce
  • admit
  • back off
  • back out
  • back pedal
  • backtrack
  • balk
  • beg off
  • bow out
  • cancel
  • cave in
  • chicken out
  • activity
  • animation
  • bang
  • birr
  • drive
  • energy
  • force
  • get-up-and-go
  • hardihood
  • life
  • moxie
  • oomph
  • pep
  • potency
  • abandon
  • be unfaithful
  • betray
  • change
  • desert
  • forsake
  • renege
  • repudiate
  • retract
  • return
  • revert
  • abandon
  • cede
  • commend
  • commit
  • consign
  • deliver
  • dispense
  • donate
  • entrust
  • feed
  • find
  • fork out
  • fork up
  • give up
  • adumbrate
  • blot out
  • bury
  • cache
  • camouflage
  • cloak
  • cover
  • curtain
  • disguise
  • dissemble
  • ditch
  • duck
  • eclipse
  • ensconce
  • abandon
  • avoid
  • back
  • back away
  • back down
  • back off
  • back out
  • backtrack
  • beat it
  • cave in
  • decamp
  • depart
  • disengage
  • draw back
  • coat
  • cocoon
  • cushion
  • cut off
  • inlay
  • island
  • isolate
  • line
  • seclude
  • separate
  • sequester
  • set apart
  • shield
  • tape
  • ante
  • buy in on
  • chance
  • dice
  • game
  • hazard
  • lay odds
  • play against
  • play for
  • play the ponies
  • pledge
  • pony up
  • put
  • put money on
  • allowance
  • assent
  • authorization
  • concession
  • consent
  • dispensation
  • freedom
  • go-ahead
  • green light
  • liberty
  • okay
  • permit
  • sanction
  • sufferance
  • amount to be asked
  • be demanded
  • be given
  • be marked at
  • be needed
  • be paid
  • be priced at
  • be received
  • be valued at
  • be worth
  • bring in
  • come to
  • mount up
  • nick
  • leave
  • pull out
  • quit
  • reject
  • withdraw
  • abandon
  • depart
  • evacuate
  • exit
  • get off
  • go
  • leave
  • retire
  • retreat
  • shove off
  • stop
  • stop participating
  • take off
  • withdraw
  • blanch
  • blench
  • cringe
  • droop
  • faint
  • falter
  • flinch
  • have cold feet
  • quake
  • recoil
  • shake
  • shudder
  • start
  • tremble
  • abdicate
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • cut out
  • decamp
  • depart
  • desert
  • drop
  • drop out
  • evacuate
  • exit
  • forsake
  • abate
  • back
  • close
  • decline
  • decrease
  • depart
  • die off
  • diminish
  • drain away
  • draw back
  • drop
  • dwindle
  • ebb
  • fade
  • backfire
  • balk
  • blanch
  • blench
  • blink
  • carom
  • cringe
  • demur
  • dodge
  • draw back
  • duck
  • falter
  • flinch
  • hesitate
  • bob
  • careen
  • falter
  • feel giddy
  • go around
  • lurch
  • pitch
  • revolve
  • rock
  • roll
  • shake
  • stagger
  • stumble
  • sway
  • backslide
  • degenerate
  • deteriorate
  • ebb
  • fall away
  • fall back
  • fall off
  • go back
  • lapse
  • lose ground
  • recede
  • relapse
  • retreat
  • retrogress
  • abandon
  • abdicate
  • abnegate
  • back down
  • cast
  • cast off
  • cede
  • cut loose
  • desert
  • discard
  • ditch
  • drop
  • drop like hot potato
  • drop out
  • abandon
  • abdicate
  • bail out
  • bow out
  • capitulate
  • cease work
  • cede
  • demit
  • divorce oneself from
  • drop
  • drop out
  • end service
  • fold
  • forgo
  • absent oneself
  • decamp
  • deny oneself
  • depart
  • draw back
  • ebb
  • exit
  • fall back
  • get away
  • get off
  • give ground
  • give up work
  • give way
  • go
  • abate
  • back
  • close
  • decline
  • decrease
  • depart
  • die off
  • diminish
  • drain away
  • draw back
  • drop
  • dwindle
  • ebb
  • fade
  • backward
  • catabolic
  • contrary
  • declining
  • deteriorating
  • inverse
  • inverted
  • lapsing
  • receding
  • reversed
  • sinking
  • slipping
  • worsening
  • about-face
  • antipode
  • antipole
  • antithesis
  • back
  • bottom
  • change of mind
  • contra
  • contradiction
  • contradictory
  • contrary
  • converse
  • counter
  • counterpole
  • amble
  • bound
  • break
  • canter
  • dart
  • dash
  • drop
  • escape
  • fall
  • flight
  • gallop
  • jog
  • lope
  • pace
  • absent oneself
  • decamp
  • deny oneself
  • depart
  • draw back
  • ebb
  • exit
  • fall back
  • get away
  • get off
  • give ground
  • give up work
  • give way
  • go
  • cloister
  • close off
  • cut off
  • draw back
  • enisle
  • hide
  • insulate
  • island
  • secrete
  • segregate
  • separate
  • set apart
  • set off
  • withdraw
  • compress
  • concentrate
  • condense
  • constrict
  • contract
  • decrease
  • deflate
  • diminish
  • drop off
  • dwindle
  • fail
  • fall off
  • fall short
  • grow smaller
  • deduct
  • discount
  • pull back
  • recede
  • recoil
  • reel in
  • retreat
  • sheathe
  • shrink
  • subtract
  • take away
  • withdraw
  • desert under fire
  • make a U-turn
  • retreat
  • run scared
  • skedaddle
  • turn around
  • turn on a dime
  • abandon
  • abrogate
  • annul
  • clear
  • depart
  • discharge
  • dissolve
  • empty
  • evacuate
  • give up
  • go away
  • leave
  • move out
  • move out of
  • abjure
  • absent oneself
  • back out
  • bail out
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • depart
  • detach
  • disengage
  • draw away
  • draw back
  • drop out
  • abjure
  • absent oneself
  • back out
  • bail out
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • depart
  • detach
  • disengage
  • draw away
  • draw back
  • drop out
  • abjure
  • absent oneself
  • back out
  • bail out
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • depart
  • detach
  • disengage
  • draw away
  • draw back
  • drop out
  • abjure
  • absent oneself
  • back out
  • bail out
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • depart
  • detach
  • disengage
  • draw away
  • draw back
  • drop out
  • abjure
  • absent oneself
  • back out
  • bail out
  • blow
  • book
  • bow out
  • check out
  • depart
  • detach
  • disengage
  • draw away
  • draw back
  • drop out

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