runaway (third-person singular simple presentruns away,present participlerunning away,simple pastran away,past participlerun away)
- Toflee byrunning.
The crowd had torun away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
- Toleave 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.
My parents want me to take a bath every day? Fine, I'mrunning away.
1909,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, inThe Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead and Company, published1919,→OCLC:"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 Iran 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. […]."
1974,Rhoda (opening credit scene)[2], spoken by Rhoda Morgenstern:I decided to move out of the house when I was 24; my mother still refers to this as the time Iran away from home.
2005 September 17, Tom Armstrong,Marvin (comic):Look, kid... it's getting kind of late. It'll be dark soon. Mayberunning away today isn't such a good idea.
- To become arunaway.(of a device or vehicle)
The train's brakes failed and itran away.
An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidlyrun away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.
1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, inRailway Magazine, page186:The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.
to flee by running
- Arabic:هَرَبَ (ar)(haraba)
- South Levantine Arabic:هرب(harab),شرد(sharad)
- Catalan:fugir (ca)
- Cherokee:ᎠᎵᏘᎠ(alitia)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:逃跑 (zh)(táopǎo)
- Czech:utéct (cs)
- Dutch:vluchten (nl),weglopen (nl)
- Esperanto:forkuri
- Finnish:juosta pakoon
- French:s’enfuir (fr)
- Friulian:fuî,scjampâ
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- German:wegrennen (de),davonlaufen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient:φεύγω(pheúgō),ἀποτρέχω(apotrékhō)
- Hebrew:בָּרַח (he)(baráẖ)
- Ido:fugar (io)
- Italian:scappare (it),fuggire (it)
- Japanese:逃げる (ja)(nigeru),逃走する(tousousuru)
- Kabuverdianu:fuji
- Kabyle:rwel
- Latin:fugiō (la)
- Ngazidja Comorian:utrawa
- Norwegian:stikke av (no)
- Ottoman Turkish:قاچمق(kaçmak)
- Persian:فرار کردن (fa)(farâr kardan)
- Polish:uciekać (pl)
- Portuguese:fugir (pt)
- Romanian:fugi (ro),scăpa (ro)
- Russian:убега́ть (ru) impf(ubegátʹ),убежа́ть (ru) pf(ubežátʹ)
- Sanskrit:नश्यति (sa)(naśyati),सिसर्ति(sisarti)
- Scottish Gaelic:teich
- Spanish:huir (es)
- Swedish:springa iväg
- Telugu:పారిపోవు (te)(pāripōvu)
- Walloon:cori evoye (wa)
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