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Run off

verb

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off. "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry. Synonyms: beetle off, bolt, bolt out, run out. "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings. Synonyms: chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, turn back. "Drive away bad thoughts" , "Dispel doubts" , "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

Run away secretly with one's beloved. Synonym: elope.

Run off as waste. Synonym: waste.

Reproduce by xerography. Synonyms: photocopy, xerox.

Decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff.

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"Run off" Quotes from Famous Books

... Soon two-thirds of the spectators were trooping to join the throng in the upper field, pressing in on the antagonists, jostling in their eagerness to catch a word of the dispute. The competitors in Class D were left to plough lonely furrows and finish them unapplauded. Young Mr Crago had run off meantime to secure the ...

— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... and the belief of the fact of the resurrection of Christ, I have shown elsewhere. The universal belief of the 'tyrannicidium' of Julius Caesar is doubtless a fairer instance, but the whole mode of argument is unsound and unsatisfying. Why run off from the fact in question, or the class at least to which it belongs? The victory can be but accidental—a victory obtained by the unguarded logic, or want of logical foresight of the antagonist, who needs only narrow his positions ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... youngest sister. It had been an occasion to rouse an older brother and the head of his house to some dramatic pronouncement. He should have taken a stand, they said, though just what stand one should take, when one's sister has run off with another man and left a wholly admirable husband and a winsome baby daughter behind, may not, perhaps, have been wholly clear to the minds of the remaining impeccable sisters. They demanded he should confiscate her share of their father's estate as punishment; ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... time; the Zeppelins came somewhere to this island every night for a week—one of them, on the night of the big raid, was visible from our square for fifteen or twenty minutes—in general it is a dull and depressing time. I have thought that since you were determined to run off with a young fellow, you chose a pretty good time to go away. I'm afraid there'll be no more of what we call "fun" in this town as long as ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick

... filth of city courts and back lanes. If you speak to him he answers you sturdily—if you can catch the meaning of his words, doubly difficult from accent and imperfect knowledge of construction. But he means well, and if you send him on an errand will run off to find 'measter' as fast as his short stature will allow. He will potter about the farmyard the whole morning, perhaps turning up at home for a lunch of a slice of bread well larded. His little sister, not so old as himself, is there, already beginning ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

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