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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

... railroad track it can grab hold of a house full o' folks and run off with it. Goes ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various

... had not as much loneliness; don't you think the place was admirably adapted for an elopement? I am certain—nay, you need not smile—for I am quite certain, that every one of the seventy-seven maidens, of whom history tells us, including the charming Ermenilda herself, fully made up their minds to run off with the Danes before they came to the island. I wish, though, that your father could be persuaded to consider this only a summer residence, for it must be a little dreary, I think. Not that I feel it such, ...

— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall

... You have to make him do it. And maybe he's shy, and don't do it, and you have to put the idea in his head for him. Or maybe he's not sure he wants you, and you have to make him realize how very desirable you are! Maybe you have to scare him, making him think you're going to run off with somebody else! Don't you see how it is ...

— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair

... run off . . . he was scared, the fool. Well, what's to be done now? I can't go on alone because I don't know the way; besides they may think I have stolen his horse. . . . What's ...

— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... thousand miles long. The water in it is shallow and turbid, and it has a gentle current toward the north. The rains, at length, in a great measure cease; but it requires some months for the water to run off and leave the valley dry. As soon as it is gone, there springs up from the whole surface of the ground which has been thus submerged a most rank ...

— Cleopatra • Jacob Abbott

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