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RUN AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Example:
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Synonyms:
break away; bunk; escape; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run away" is one way to...):
go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run away"):
flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)
skedaddle (run away, as if in a panic)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
runaway (someone who flees from an uncongenial situation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Escape from the control of
Example:
Industry is running away with us all
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "run away" is one way to...):
break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples:
Has she run away because we are come?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Only remained to him to run away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Do not run away with such an idea.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
"Don't run away," she laughed. "I won't bite you."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It'll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the tombsteans all run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble-field.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He did not try to run away, but retreated around and around the camp, advertising plainly that when his desire was met, he would come in and be good.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
As she arrived at right angles to the sea, the full force of the wind (from which we had hitherto run away) caught us.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"We're seeing an object that was able to accrete hydrogen from the protoplanetary disk but didn't run away to become a hot Jupiter," said Benneke.
(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)
An older child may use drugs or alcohol, try to run away or abuse others.
(Child Abuse, NIH)
I just made up my mind to run away and explain afterwards.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
