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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

... in your pocket. Jennie found 'em in the rag-bag, and tried to make me take half; but of course I never; and now she's run off with 'em!" ...

— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May

... black-haired woman again came home far gone in drink, and again Sam led her up the stairs to see her fall muttering and babbling upon the bed. Her companion, a little flashily dressed man with a beard, had run off at the sight of Sam standing in the living-room under the lamp. The two boys, to whom he had been reading, said nothing, looking self-consciously at the book upon the table and occasionally out of the corner ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... the races were run off—the two-twenty, the quarter-mile, the half-mile, the high hurdles, the low hurdles. Irving started them all without any mishap. The last one, the low hurdles for two hundred and twenty yards, was exciting; the runners were all well matched and the handicaps were small. ...

— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier

... a little creek here for a while," said Frank. "The water has all run off now, but it ...

— Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) • Francis W. Parker and Nellie Lathrop Helm

... lengthwise along the road, and which will cause an undue amount of wear and washing. A road may be actually flat to the eye, and equally convenient for travel at every part of its width, and still have enough lateral slope to cause water to run off from it. ...

— Village Improvements and Farm Villages • George E. Waring

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