run off
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]run off (third-person singular simple present runs off, present participle running off, simple past ran off, past participle run off)
- To flee or depart quickly.
- Don't run off before the end of the event.
- He ran off to France leaving her with all the debts and three children to bring up.
- 1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon:
- My girlfriend's run off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa.
- (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
- Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.
- (idiomatic) To write something quickly.
- Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
- They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.
- To cause to flow away.
- to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace
- To chase someone away.
- If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.
- 1983 December 10, Jay, “Who Are The Real Victimizers?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 16:
- The detective came back to see them the next day to take "additional statements." The boys [sic] dad refused him access to the boys because when they saw him drive up, they burst into tears and hid in their room. Their dad eventually, several days later, had to run the detective off with a shotgun.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
- This radio runs off batteries.
- To have diarrhea.
- To recite, especially items on a list.
- He ran off the checklist one by one but still missed a couple items.
- (transitive) To steal (horses).
- He ran off a pony from the ranch.
Translations
[edit]to leave or depart quickly
to chase someone away
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