pack up
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1
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
- the auto company is downsizing and will be packing up operations at the local plant
- break,
- break off,
- break up,
- can
-
[slang],
- cease,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- desist (from),
- discontinue,
- drop,
- end,
- give over,
- halt,
- knock off,
- lay off,
- leave off,
- quit,
- shut off,
- stop
- block,
- blockade,
- dam,
- delay,
- detain,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold back,
- impede,
- kibosh,
- obstruct,
- stem
- arrest,
- brake,
- check,
- clamp down,
- rein (in),
- squash,
- squelch,
- stamp,
- stanch
- (or staunch),
- stunt,
- suppress,
- turn back
2
to stop doing (something) permanently
- after two years of college, he decided to pack in that academic stuff and join the army
- break off,
- break up,
- cease,
- close,
- conclude,
- end,
- expire,
- finish,
- halt,
- leave off,
- shut off
to leave a place often for another
- with the dinner conversation becoming more and more desultory, the time had clearly come to pack off
- bail,
- bail out,
- begone,
- book
-
[slang],
- bug off,
- bug out,
- bugger off
-
[British slang],
- buzz (off),
- clear off
-
[chiefly British],
- clear out,
- cut out,
- depart,
- dig out,
- exit,
- get,
- get off,
- go,
- go off,
- move,
- part,
- peel off,
- pike (out or off),
- pull out,
- push off,
- push on,
- quit,
- run along,
- sally (forth),
- scarper
-
[British],
- shove (off),
- step (along),
- take off,
- vamoose,
- walk out
- abscond,
- decamp,
- escape,
- evacuate,
- flee,
- fly,
- get out,
- mizzle
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[chiefly British],
- run away,
- scat,
- scram,
- skip