run away
Verb
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Verb
run away
- 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.
- The little boy was unhappy about having to take a bath every day and decided to run away from home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620 ↗:
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. […]."
- French: s'enfuir
- German: wegrennen, davonlaufen
- Italian: scappare, fuggire
- Portuguese: fugir
- Russian: убега́ть
- Spanish: huir
- German: ausreißen, durchbrennen
- Portuguese: fugir
- Russian: убега́ть
- Spanish: escapar, arrancar
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