run off
verboEn español: echar
- To flee or depart quickly. · Near-synonym: run away· Don't run off before the end of the event.
- To make photocopies, or print. · Near-synonyms: print off, print out· Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.
- To write something quickly. · Near-synonyms: dash off, whip up· Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.
- To pour or spill off or over. · They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.
- To cause to flow away. · to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace
- To chase someone away. · Near-synonyms: chase off, chase away, scare off· If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source. · This radio runs off batteries.· This radio runs off of batteries.
- To have diarrhea.
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“Its parents have run off.
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper, “A man’s cub is a man’s cub, and he must learn all the Law of the Jungle.”
On finding that the Hare also had run off, he said, “I am rightly served, for having let go of the food that I had in my hand for the chance of obtaining more.”
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