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  1. v. To flee by running
  2. v. To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.

Examples

  • “He says that to run away from Mr. Ammon, when you had made him no promise at all, when he wasn't sure of you, won't send him home to her; it will set him hunting you!”

    A Girl of the Limberlost

  • “Ashleigh Bortch had run away from home, and the only place she had felt safe running to was here.”

    Simon & Schuster: Miss Misery

  • “Matt had already dug far enough into this to know that Genny Auden, age thirteen, had supposedly run away from the Home twenty-two years ago, on the night of August 13.”

    Simon & Schuster: Whispers At Midnight

  • “Some run away as a response to over-control, neglect, or conditional love.”

    Simon & Schuster: Raising Children Who Think for Themselves

  • “Meanwhile it appeared that Bobby Baldwin would run away from the field.”

    Simon & Schuster: One of a Kind

  • “We all too remember Tolstoi's reminiscences when, having been flogged by his tutor, he slunk off to the attic, weeping and broken-hearted, and finally after a long brooding resolved to run away and become a soldier, and this he did in fancy, becoming corporal, lieutenant, captain, colonel.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

  • “The Bills have been sinking in the Possessors Hands ever since they were issued, and every one who has been a Possessor ought to have his Part of the Loss made up to him, and not the Possessor of the present Day run away with the Whole.”

    A Brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Paper Currency of New-England

  • “Be smart and choose to run away from him as fast as you can! the one Azrael had called Forcas said.”

    Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

  • “They are afraid, their sharp-nailed little hands dig into our adult flesh as, big-eyed, they urge us to run as soon as we heard the RATs, run, run away now.”

    Simon & Schuster: Our American King

  • “Victor wanted us to run away together, but I explained to him that Cliché was more powerful, richer, and had more small change than ever before, and that he would pursue us to the ends of the earth and that eventually he would find us.”

    Simon & Schuster: Bubble in the Bathtub

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