run away
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(LEAVE)
B2 to leave a place or person secretly and suddenly:
He ran away from home when he was only twelve.
Mark and my sister are planning to run away together to get married.
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- sally
- sally forth idiom
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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Running away and escaping
(AVOID)
to avoid dealing with a problem or difficult situation:
She accused him of running away from his responsibilities.
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Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- flinch
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shrink
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand around
- stand by
- stand round
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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