run away
verb- To flee by running. · The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
- To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile. · My parents want me to take a bath every day? Fine, I'm running away.
- To become a runaway. (of a device or vehicle) · The train's brakes failed and it ran away.· An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidly run away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.
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Good-bye;—I must run away, for they would send here for me, or, rather, farewell till I see you again.
But as it is--you must not let your fancy run away with you.
The Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world; though only a few weeks before, when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune.
Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go.
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