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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

... of that," Bill answered gravely. "An' so, when I saw it run off across the snow, I looked in the snow an' saw its tracks. Then I counted the dogs an' there was still six of 'em. The tracks is there in the snow now. D'ye want to look at 'em? I'll show 'em ...

— White Fang • Jack London

... it was very much unlaced. I had to take off my gloves to lace it up, and I did it heroically, with bent head and outward calm, when all the time I was mad to snatch the girl out of the saddle and hold her tight or run off with her or do ...

— The Rustlers of Pecos County • Zane Grey

... I'm to meet some Swedes at the drug-store. You would n't care for them. I wanted to see your room so I could write Tony all about it, but I must tell her how I left you right here with your books. She's always so afraid some one will run off with you!" Lena slipped her silk sleeves into the jacket I held for her, smoothed it over her person, and buttoned it slowly. I walked with her to the door. "Come and see me sometimes when you're lonesome. But maybe you have all the friends you want. Have you?" ...

— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather

... for ordinarily fair weather. Not often have battles at sea been fought in a storm. Besides, the Kennebunk must run off the coast, beyond the approved steamship lines, to a point where she could be joined by a ...

— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson

... told me of several instances on board merchantmen, and some few on board men-of-war, where the crews, driven to desperation, had risen against their officers, and either put them to death or turned them adrift, and run off with the ship. He, however, did not seem to dream of any such thing taking place in our case. I at the same time was much struck with his remarks, and could not help keeping my ears and eyes open to watch the proceedings of the crew. From what ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

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