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View definitions for run away

run away

verb as in absquatulate

verb as in break away

verb as in skip

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Example Sentences

He has rolled a giant grenade into the middle of the nation’s capital and watched with mischievous glee to see who runs away and who throws themselves on it.

From Salon

At the end of August Ms Brella phoned her father in India to say she had run away, her sister said.

From BBC

Don’t take personally the Sagittarius penchant to run away at a moment’s notice to a faraway land promising the stimulation they not just crave but require to fuel their hyperactive brains.

"There was a young kid, who can't have been any more than eight or nine, and he picked up a rock, threw it at the police line and ran away," he said.

From BBC

Their documents were taken to stop them running away, authorities added.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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