run away

See also: runaway, run away with, and run-away

English

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Verb

run away (third-person singular simple present runs away, present participle running away, simple past ran away, past participle run away)

To flee by running.
The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
- 1965, Ed Cobb, “Tainted Love”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret‎, published 1981, performed by Soft Cell:
  Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away / I've got to / Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
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.
The little boy was unhappy about having to take a bath every day and decided to run away from home.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620:
  "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. […]."
(of a device or vehicle) To become a runaway.
The train's brakes failed and it ran away.
An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidly run away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.
- 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
  The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.

Translations

to flee by running

Arabic: هَرَبَ‎ (ar) (haraba)
Catalan: fugir (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏘᎠ (alitia)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逃跑 (zh) (táopǎo)
Czech: utéct (cs)
Dutch: vluchten (nl), weglopen (nl)
Esperanto: forkuri
Finnish: juosta pakoon
French: s'enfuir (fr)
Friulian: fuî, scjampâ
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: wegrennen (de), davonlaufen (de)
Greek:
Ancient: φεύγω (pheúgō), ἀποτρέχω (apotrékhō)
Hebrew: בָּרַח‎ (he) (baráẖ)
Ido: fugar (io)
Italian: scappare (it), fuggire (it)
Japanese: 逃げる (ja) (nigeru), 逃走する (tousousuru)
Kabuverdianu: fuji
Kabyle: rwel
Latin: fugiō (la)
Ngazidja Comorian: utrawa
Norwegian: stikke av (no)
Persian: فرار کردن‎ (fa) (farâr kardan)
Polish: uciekać (pl)
Portuguese: fugir (pt)
Romanian: fugi (ro), scăpa (ro)
Russian: убега́ть (ru) impf (ubegátʹ), убежа́ть (ru) pf (ubežátʹ)
Sanskrit: नश्यति (sa) (naśyati), सिसर्ति (sisarti)
Spanish: huir (es)
Swedish: springa iväg
Telugu: పారిపోవు (te) (pāripōvu)
Walloon: cori evoye (wa)

to leave home

Chinese:
Mandarin: 離家／离家 (zh) (líjiā)
Finnish: karata kotoa
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: ausreißen (de), durchbrennen (de)
Japanese: 家出する (いえでする, iede suru)
Persian: فرار کردن‎ (fa) (farâr kardan)
Portuguese: fugir (pt)
Russian: убега́ть (ru) impf (ubegátʹ), убежа́ть (ru) pf (ubežátʹ)
Spanish: escapar (es), arrancarse (es)
Swedish: springa bort

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Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} forkuri