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run away
verb
- to take flight; escape
- to go away; depart
- (of a horse) to gallop away uncontrollably
- run away with
- to abscond or elope with
he ran away with his boss's daughter
- to make off with; steal
- to escape from the control of
his enthusiasm ran away with him
- to win easily or be assured of victory in (a competition)
he ran away with the race
noun
- a person or animal that runs away
- ( as modifier )
a runaway horse
- the act or an instance of running away
- modifier occurring as a result of the act of eloping
a runaway wedding
- modifier (of a race, victory, etc) easily won
a runaway ten-shot victory
Example Sentences
Her target runs away, because trying to talk to someone behaving like her is like trying to converse with a wildfire.
"When we saw them, we shot them. One of them got hit" and another ran away, he said.
"One thing I always admired about him 鈥 though did not always agree with at first 鈥 was that he didn't run away from difficult things," said Archbishop Gallagher.
Compared with wilder individuals, which ran away immediately, the suburban lizards would move away from the researchers in shorter bursts, but not entirely.
In his video, which got more than three million views, John Moe The urged people to "take important things with you and run away from buildings during the shaking."
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