if a liquid runs off, or if you run it off, it flows away from or out of something
to force someone to leave a place
to quickly print a copy of something
to suddenly leave a place or person
to talk too much
At the end, after a series of run-off votes, Antony beat one of the local men by ten votes to six.
One day he taught him a song about a young woman who had run off to sea with a band of desperate pirates.
She'd come too far to turn and run off now with her tail between her legs.
The resulting decline in beaver dams had meant there was nothing to stop the run-off of rainwater from the mountains.
The sand was strewn with debris from the margin of the rocks to the water's edge, and the waves themselves dyed with the run-off mud.
Their dad ran off when they were little.
This channel allows rainwater to run off.
To add insult to injury, she had run off with the very pot she had cheated to give to Reno.
Well, I've offered my assistance and more or less got told to run off and play with myself.
Would you mind running off some more copies of the agenda?
runs off
running off
ran off
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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