RUN OFF • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Run off

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rən ɔf/ Listen

Run off

verb

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off. "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry. Synonyms: beetle off, bolt, bolt out, run out. "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings. Synonyms: chase away, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, turn back. "Drive away bad thoughts" , "Dispel doubts" , "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

Run away secretly with one's beloved. Synonym: elope.

Run off as waste. Synonym: waste.

Reproduce by xerography. Synonyms: photocopy, xerox.

Decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff.

See more definitions of Run off...

See images of 'Run off'

Etymology of 'Run off'

Share |

"Run off" Quotes from Famous Books

... one or two natives fishing, and I took Piper down to the beach to speak to them, being desirous also to examine at leisure this fine sheet of water. We found on arriving there that other natives had run off from some huts on the shore, but Piper pursued those in the lake, for the purpose of obtaining information about the tribe, until they ran so far out into the water that they seemed at length up to ...

— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... of a hob-nailed shoe on the gravel outside. All these phenomena have struck your attention instantly, and before two minutes have passed you say, "Oh, somebody has broken open the window, entered the room, and run off with the spoons and the tea-pot!" That speech is out of your mouth in a moment. And you will probably add, "I know there has; I am quite sure of it!" You mean to say exactly what you know; but in reality what you have said ...

— The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings • Thomas H. Huxley

... such a thing. He might have run the man down; but he would never have run off and left ...

— The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross - Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause • Gertrude W. Morrison

... folded up when it is wet. Let it stand with handle downwards, so that the wet can run off the ends of the ribs, instead of running towards the ferrule and rusting that ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... eyes; the dark firs that bordered the road seemed to him gigantic corpses travelling beside him. He saw, or thought he saw, the same woman clothed in black, whom he had pointed out to Grandchamp, approach so near as to touch his horse's mane, pull his cloak, and then run off with a jeering laugh; the sand of the road seemed to him a river running beneath him, with opposing current, back toward its source. This strange sight dazzled his worn eyes; he closed them and ...

— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny

More quotes...