run_off has definitions from the field of games
1
[ verb ] run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

Max , in a fit of despair , takes Alicia and runs_off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ) , at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's_disease and dies .

2
[ verb ] leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

Examples

"The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas" "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

Used in print

(R. Leslie Gourse, With Gall and Honey....)

Then she continued with energy , `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run_off to find the father .

Related terms

leave

3
[ verb ] force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Examples

"Drive away potential burglars' "drive away bad thoughts" "dispel doubts" "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers"

Used in print

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

My father ran him off here six years ago '' .

4
[ verb ] run off as waste

Synonyms

waste

Examples

: "The water wastes back into the ocean"

Related terms

run overflow

5
[ verb ] reproduce by xerography

Synonyms

xerox photocopy

6
[ verb ] run away secretly with one's beloved

Synonyms

elope

Examples

"The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"

Related terms

flee elopement

7
[ verb ] (games) decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff

Related terms

compete game

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