RUNNING AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does running away mean? 

• RUNNING AWAY (noun)
  The noun RUNNING AWAY has 1 sense:

1. the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

  Familiarity information: RUNNING AWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUNNING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("running away" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "running away"):

elopement (the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married))

escape; flight (the act of escaping physically)

 Context examples 

Also, dogs being so constituted in their mental ways, the sight of him running away gave desire to run after him and a feeling that he ran away from them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

No, there wasn't any running away for Martin Eden.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I must say it is very unfeeling of him to be running away from his poor little boy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“I am afraid we must be running away,” said Emma, glancing at Harriet, and beginning to rise—“My father will be expecting us.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You may possibly have some idea, Miss Trotwood, of abetting him in his running away, and in his complaints to you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is der way der rich peoples chases after der appetite when it is no more and is running away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At last it popped into her head, “The dog is not shut up—he may be running away with the steak; that’s well thought of.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"We three will be ready in a minute," cried Amy, running away to wash her hands.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While running away from the wind I had not appreciated its force, but when we ceased to run I learned to my sorrow, and well-nigh to my despair, how fiercely it was really blowing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)