skip town vs go away

skip town and go away both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
skip town	No	No	Yes	No
go away	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, go away is a hypernym of skip town; that is, go away is a word with a broader meaning than skip town:

Other hypernyms of skip town include disappear, vanish.

skip town (verb)	go away (verb)
disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)	get lost, as without warning or explanation
	go away from a place
	move away from a place into another direction
	become invisible or unnoticeable