bail out
UK also bale out— phrasal verb with bail uk/beɪl/us/beɪl/verb
(JUMP)
to jump out of an aircraft with a parachute because the aircraft is going to have an accident:
The plane's engine failed and the pilot was forced to bail out.
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Running away and escaping
- abscond
- back away
- back off
- be at large idiom
- be on the run idiom
- flee
- fugitive
- gaolbreak
- getaway
- go/be run to ground idiom
- heel
- leg
- loose
- scram
- shake
- shake sb/sth off
- shoot through
- skedaddle
- slip
- throw
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Air travel: aviation
(STOP)
mainly US to stop doing or being involved with something:
The actor has bailed out of the film after only three weeks' shooting.
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Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- forwent
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- give up the ghost idiom
- grow
- self-sacrifice
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
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