RUN AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run away mean? 

• RUN AWAY (verb)
  The verb RUN AWAY has 2 senses:

1. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

2. escape from the control of

  Familiarity information: RUN AWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

Context example:

The burglars escaped before the police showed up

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

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Industry is running away with us all

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 

You must not run away from us now.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must charge; but if I let it hang down, run away as fast as you can.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And yet she has run away!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Let us say nothing about it to him till the plan is settled, then I'll run away before he can collect his wits and be tragic.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But he had never run away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bite on that, Captain Crocker, and don’t let your nerves run away with you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He has run away with his father’s woman-cook, and actually married her.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They would have run away severally had they dared; but fear kept them together, and kept them close by John, as if his daring helped them.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But as it is, you must not let your fancy run away with you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)