run away
• leave or escape from a place, person, or situation.
• "children who run away from home normally go to big cities"
Similar:
flee,
run off,
make a run for it,
run for it,
take flight,
make off,
take off,
take to one's heels,
make a break for it,
bolt,
beat a (hasty) retreat,
make a quick exit,
make one's getaway,
escape,
head for the hills,
beat it,
clear off,
clear out,
vamoose,
skedaddle,
split,
cut and run,
show a clean pair of heels,
turn tail,
scram,
hook it,
fly the coop,
skip off,
do a fade,
do a runner,
scarper,
do a bunk,
leg it,
light out,
bug out,
cut out,
peel out,
take a powder,
skiddoo,
go through,
shoot through,
fly,
levant,
run away with
• (of one's imagination or emotions) escape one's control.
• "Susan's imagination was running away with her"
• accept an idea without thinking it through properly.
• "a lot of people ran away with the idea that they were pacifists"
• win a competition or prize easily.
• "Ipswich are running away with the championship"
run off
• leave a place or situation suddenly.
• "he ran off to join Napoleon's army and never returned"
• (of a liquid) flow over and away from a surface.
• "the sweat ran off their faces"
• reproduce copies of a piece of writing, music, etc. on a machine.
• "please run off some copies of that report"
Similar:
copy,
photocopy,
xerox,
duplicate,
print,
photostat,
mimeograph,
make,
produce,
do,
