to secretly leave a place where you should stay, because you are not happy there
to try to avoid dealing with a difficult or unpleasant situation
After stealing money from her purse he returned her and the car to the spot where he had taken it and ran away.
I was challenged halfway up the running, then towards the last 100 yards my horse ran away.
If I go out with you now and you have a fight, do you want me to run away or stay with you?
If she runs away, calmly take her back and explain flies are more scared of us than us of them.
It was all about running away from what was happening inside.
It was not about running away or taking the only offer.
It was quickly surrounded by people taking pictures of it and following it as it tried to run away, according to one visitor.
It's going to be difficult but you can't run away from one horse.
It's not my profile to run away from problems, in this case to run away from bad results.
My boyfriend has asked me to run away and live with his family.
Only avoiding it and running away.
Our son's only crime was to be the last to run away from those animals.
Running away to the circus makes you taller.
She had escaped by running away with their lodger, who was married.
She had grown up in a care home and run away.
She loved the acting, but was always running away.
She loves good ground as she showed when running away with this race 12 months ago.
Then he and the other man ran away.
They asked anyone who saw the incident or the gang running away to come forward.
They do not always run away.
They had run away to live with the Indians and had been recaptured.
This awaken childhood longings to run away with the circus.
This girl is going to run away the first chance she gets.
To be fair, it had let expenditure run away last year and had to take corrective action.
When I was 13, I ran away from home.
When attacked he would either run away or stay and fight.
You can’t keep running away from the problem.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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