run off
v 1: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody
along [syn: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp,
go off]
2: leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted
when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to
tell silly stories, I ran out" [syn: run out, bolt, bolt
out, beetle off]
3: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric
meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad
thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn
back many disappointed customers" [syn: chase away, drive
out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off]
4: run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple
eloped and got married in Las Vegas" [syn: elope]
5: run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"
[syn: waste]
6: reproduce by xerography [syn: photocopy, xerox]
7: decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
WordNet (r) 2.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "run off":
abscond, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, bring out, clear out,
cut and run, cut out, decamp, depart, desert, elope, engrave, flee,
fly, fugitate, get out, go AWOL, hectograph, hightail, impress,
imprint, issue, jump, jump bail, levant, make off, make tracks,
mimeograph, multigraph, overprint, print, proof, prove, publish,
pull, pull a proof, put out, put to bed, put to press, reissue,
reprint, run, run along, run away, run away from, run away with,
run for it, show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out,
slip the cable, stamp, strike, take French leave, take flight,
take to flight, take wing, turn tail
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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