英语词汇“to run away”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. intransitive.

a. To make off hurriedly, take to flight, flee; esp. to retreat hurriedly in the face of danger or opposition. Frequently with from.he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day: see live v.¹ Phrases 11a.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee

fleec825

afleeeOE

atrina1000

atfleec1000

to run awayOE

to turn to or into flighta1225

to turn the ridgec1225

atrenc1275

atshakec1275

to give backa1300

flemec1300

startc1330

to take (on oneself) the flighta1500

to take the back upon oneselfa1500

fly1523

to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530

to flee one's way1535

to take to one's heels1548

flought?1567

fuge1573

to turn taila1586

to run off1628

to take flighta1639

refugea1641

to run for it1642

to take leg1740

to give (also take) leg-bail1751

bail1775

sherry1788

to pull foot1792

fugitate1830

to tail off (out)1830

to take to flight1840

to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845

guy1879

to give leg (or legs)1883

rabbit1887

to do a guy1889

high-tail1908

to have it on one's toes1958

OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Kings (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1881) I. 402 Sceaðan þa afligdon færlice ða licmenn, þæt hi..urnon aweg swa hraðe swa hi besawon on ðone reþan floc.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1364 An bucc rann þær aweȝȝ all cwicc.

?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) 136 (MED) Loke hem [sc. the gates of hell] nou, wose may, Ich lete hem stonden and renne away.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 3661 (MED) Ne saw he neuere be-fore þat day Hert ne hare so renne a-way.

c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 316 This [read is] that a tame best that is ay feyn To renne away when he is lest agast?

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 695/2 I runne awaye from myne enemye, or any daunger.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiij^v The Lyncolnshyre men..threw away their coates, the lighter to runne away, and fled.

?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Dj^v Thay ryn heidlang to battell, and from battell ryn cowartly away.

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 164 The present was the season, else the enemy would bee run away.

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 426 If you put Black Ants into a Bank of the Red [ants], the Black..will not meddle with the Red, but..run away.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 94 The King..rated them for running away, as he called it, though they really retreated in good Order.

1777 'Squire Randal's Excursion round London x. 103 The dogs by natural instinct ran away from the city dog-killer.

1804 Nelson Let. 12 Aug. (1846) VI. 150 That gentleman has thought proper to write a letter stating that the Fleet under my command ran away.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 276 This..Belgian hussar..was too good a soldier to disobey his Colonel's orders to run away.

1915 D. Haig Diary 26 Sept. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 156 The whole mass of infantry of the two new divisions was running away in great disorder and had abandoned the guns.

1964 L. B. Honwana in R. Rive Mod. Afr. Prose 108 All the dogs of the village were frightened of Toto, and even the biggest of them ran away when he showed his temper.

2005 New Yorker 26 Dec. 110/2 He..imagines himself fighting, as in a cloak-and-dagger movie, running away from a crazy man who is threatening him with a knife.

b. figurative. Esp. with reference to refusal or unwillingness to accept or come to terms with something.

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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xx. sig. M1^v Fugitiue Diuines, that like cowards..runne away from their Text.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xiii. 125 An evill man..is not a friend unto himselfe, but flies and labours to runne away from himselfe, and is never in so bad company, as when he is alone.

1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 102 That I may once more set up for a Man of some Parts, or else run away from my Senses as fast as I can.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxxix. 133 None of us could get out of him what so disturbed him. We should too soon hear, he said... He was out each day; and said, he wanted to run away from himself.

1833 H. G. Keene tr. Persian Fables 72 We attempt to run away from the troubles of that state of life to which we are adapted by Providence.

1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 391/1 I don't care for the people who settle difficulties by turning tail and running away from them.

1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon iii. i. 152 You've spent eight years running away from yourself.

1956 E. Fromm Art of Loving iv. 114 They must learn to be close to each other without running away in the many ways in which this is customarily done.

1966 Listener 17 Nov. 718/2 The whole of the world ran away from the pound, and if this doesn't reveal an inflationary situation, what does?

2009 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 27/5 Maybe there was a part of me that was running away from my sexuality as a teenager.

c. Used jocularly in the negative (in expressions such as it won't run away) to give assurance of the permanence, stability, or fixity of something or someone.

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1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) xiii. 34 Why—we can see the Church another day, Don't be afraid—St. Paul's can't run away.

1837 J. M. Morton Sentinel i. i. 10 in Acting National Drama I. Never mind Schloppsen, you'll find the post here when you come back; it won't run away!

1888 C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone II. xxi. 191 The charms of ‘the halls of Ivor’..which, after all, would not run away.

1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iv. iii. 515 There's no earthly reason why you should go back... The house won't run away.

1973 J. Porter It's Murder with Dover vii. 65 What's your sweat? This Tiffin bird's not going to run away.

2001 D. Samuels Filthy Rich (2002) 41 The chicken soup isn't going to run away if the Seder takes a couple of extra minutes.

2. intransitive.

a. To go away, esp. hurriedly, surreptitiously, or in secret, from where one is expected or required to stay; to abscond, desert, etc. Frequently with from (a place, an institution, (occasionally) a person). Also figurative.In quot. OE with reflexive dative.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond

to run awayOE

elope1596

to step aside1620

abscond1652

shirk1681

decamp1751

levant1797

absconce1823

skip1865

skin1871

to shoot the crow1887

sneak1896

to go through1933

to take a run-out powder1933

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 454 Se latteow wearð gebolgen and þone blindan forlet, arn him aweg and se oðer nyste hu he ham come.

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 50 (MED) A, der God..I haue ronnyn a-wey fro þe.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 47 ‘Where is he?’ tyte will she spyr; If I tell her, ‘ron away’, hir answere bese belife, ‘nay, sir!’

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 695/2 He was aboute to ronne awaye, and he had done it in dede if I had nat taken the better hede.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. to Rdr. Scholers..be runne awaie from the Schole.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 127 There were foure-score Christian slaues, who hauing cut their Captaines throat.., runne away from Constantinople.

1674 London Gaz. No. 896/4 Run away..a Blackamoor Man..Iron-marked in his Brest with the sign of a Greyhound.

1759 S. Johnson Let. 9 Nov. (1992) I. 188 Being disgusted in the house he ran away to Sea.

1793 ‘A. Pasquin’ Life Late Earl of Barrymore (ed. 3) 13 Mr. Stone had a tenant run away.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 111 Please, Sir, I think Smike's run away, Sir.

1870 G. W. Dasent Ann. Eventful Life II. xii. 227 I would run away, I would enlist, I would take orders—anything rather than marry Mary.

1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 196 She's a born wife and mother, maam. Thats why my children all ran away from home.

1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire vii. 183 Servant girls ran away to London to seek their fortunes.

2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons iii. i. 193 He had violated the pact his father made by running away from his new master..on their first journey together.

b. To elope with another person (also with to). Also with together.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [verb (intransitive)] > elope

to run away1592

elope1628

to run off1725

1592 Arden of Feversham iv. iii. 9 Didst thou ever see better weather to run away with another man's wife, or play with a wench at pot-finger?

1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque C ij b Doe not I know that thou wilt run away with the Gentleman?

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. I3^v That she should sleight me, and run away with a wages-fellow, that is but a petty Cleark and a Serving-man.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 95 She took it in her head..to run away with a nobleman.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xiv. 105 The next girl that run away to a dancing master, or an ensign.

1830 ‘Messrs. Von Dunderhead’ Budget 122 I think we shall be good friends yet, though you ran away with Peggy, and I can tell you that I was awful mad at it.

1866 Catholic World Nov. 235/1 We ran away together and were married at Plymouth.

1912 I. V. Simonton Hell's Playground xv. 242 Placing a guard over her that she might not run away to a man of her own race.

1948 J. Thurber Let. 13 Sept. (2002) 432 We hit on the idea of Ellen announcing that she was going to run away with Joe.

1990 A. S. Byatt Possession xxiii. 421 They had run away together, and were sharply aware of the usual connotations of this act.

2004 M. K. Andrews Hissy Fit xxxi. 187 What happened to the jilted sister, after her husband ran away with Jeanine?

c. Simply: to depart, leave. Cf. to run along at Phrasal verbs 1.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]

wendeOE

i-wite971

ashakec975

shakeOE

to go awayOE

witea1000

afareOE

agoOE

atwendOE

awayOE

to wend awayOE

awendOE

gangOE

rimeOE

flitc1175

to fare forthc1200

depart?c1225

part?c1225

partc1230

to-partc1275

biwitec1300

atwitea1325

withdrawa1325

to draw awayc1330

passc1330

to turn one's (also the) backc1330

lenda1350

begonec1370

remuea1375

voidc1374

removec1380

to long awaya1382

twinc1386

to pass one's wayc1390

trussc1390

waive1390

to pass out ofa1398

avoida1400

to pass awaya1400

to turn awaya1400

slakec1400

wagc1400

returnc1405

to be gonea1425

muck1429

packc1450

recede1450

roomc1450

to show (a person) the feetc1450

to come offc1475

to take one's licence1475

issue1484

devoidc1485

rebatea1500

walka1500

to go adieua1522

pikea1529

to go one's ways1530

retire?1543

avaunt1549

to make out1558

trudge1562

vade?1570

fly1581

leave1593

wag1594

to get off1595

to go off1600

to put off1600

shog1600

troop1600

to forsake patch1602

exit1607

hence1614

to give offa1616

to take off1657

to move off1692

to cut (also slip) the painter1699

sheera1704

to go about one's business1749

mizzle1772

to move out1792

transit1797–1803

stump it1803

to run away1809

quit1811

to clear off1816

to clear out1816

nash1819

fuff1822

to make (take) tracks (for)1824

mosey1829

slope1830

to tail out1830

to walk one's chalks1835

to take away1838

shove1844

trot1847

fade1848

evacuate1849

shag1851

to get up and get1854

to pull out1855

to cut (the) cable(s)1859

to light out1859

to pick up1872

to sling one's Daniel or hook1873

to sling (also take) one's hook1874

smoke1893

screw1896

shoot1897

voetsak1897

to tootle off1902

to ship out1908

to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909

to push off1918

to bugger off1922

biff1923

to fuck off1929

to hit, split or take the breeze1931

to jack off1931

to piss offa1935

to do a mick1937

to take a walk1937

to head off1941

to take a hike1944

moulder1945

to chuff off1947

to get lost1947

to shoot through1947

skidoo1949

to sod off1950

peel1951

bug1952

split1954

poop1961

mugger1962

frig1965

1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring x, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 230 Mrs. Beaumont..rose, and rang the bell for her carriage. ‘Mr. Palmer,’ said she, ‘I am afraid we must run away.’

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 11 You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward?

1904 Punch 24 Aug. 132/2 Here the White Rabbit broke off. ‘I shall complete my story to-morrow,’ he said. ‘Now run away and play, like good animals.’

1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 62 Oh well, I'll have to put up with you. Run away and play.

2007 J. Shaw Angel ii. 24 As I bid them goodnight, the larger man..grabbed my arm, asking why I was running away so soon.

3. intransitive. to run away with.

(a) Of a horse, etc.: to carry off ungovernably, bolt with (a person). See also sense 4a.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > carry rider > bolt (with rider)

to run away withc1330

bolt1820

c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 2021 (MED) Þe hors..arnede awai wiþ þe king.

1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vi. vi. sig. k.vij^v Therwith his hors ranne awey with hym, and he felle doune to the erthe.

1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) iii. xiii. f. 65^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe He beinge to stubborne doeth ouermuche force you, and wyll nedes run awaye with you whether you will or not.

a1652 A. Wilson in F. Peck Desiderata Curiosa (1735) II. xii. 25 My spotted Nag..being younge & not well waigh'd, run away with mee.

1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 8 A fiery Horse, that ran away with him..as he wheel'd about under a Walk of Orange Trees.

1704 Lives, Eng. & Forein I. 317 The Marquiss De Villequier's Horse ran away with him at the Tilt by an Accident.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 28 It is far from improbable, that he may run away with you.

1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 451/1 The horse ran away with him.

a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Trav. S. Afr. (1875) 321 Axel's ox ran away with and threw him, breaking girths, nose-rein, &c.

1915 G. B. Grinnell Fighting Cheyennes xvii. 214 His horse ran away with him, and he could not control it.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 44/2 On parade his untrained horse regularly ran away with him, and three times in a week he was thrown.

(b) figurative. Esp. of an idea, emotion, etc.: to be of such force or strength as to be beyond the ability of (a person, one's reason, etc.) to control it; to sway or persuade beyond what is justified.

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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 1 I thought to come and holde you.., lest your boke shoulde runne awaye with you.

1605 N. Breton Poste with Packet: 2nd Pt. sig. C^v Take heede of Poetry, least it runne away wth thy wit.

1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage sig. A2 My Poetry will never run away with me; but the good fortune of finding so many Honourable Patrons..has transported me.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋2 His desires run away with him.

1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 12 Don't let your Passion run away with your Senses.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 152 Our anger runs away with our reason.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 812 The accelerating nerves often..run away with the heart.

1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 120 He was an imaginative man, and sometimes his imaginative hypotheses ran away with him.

1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) ix. 131 I'm sorry, I'm afraid I've let my feelings run away with me.

(a) To depart, in haste or surreptitiously, having taken possession of (esp. something to which one is not entitled); to make off with.

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the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > take surreptitiously [verb (transitive)]

forsteala940

stealc950

undernimc1175

to run away with?c1430

embezzle1469

steal?1473

surrept1548

cloyne1549

abstract1555

secrete1749

smuggle1768

to run off1821

snakea1861

sneak1883

snitch1904

palm1941

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 214 (MED) Ellis oþere broþelis wolden renne awey wiþ riche mennus good.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xlix. sig. e ij ^v/2 They can or may begyle ony man of his good as they done full ofte and renne awaye with other mennes goodes.

c1565 W. Turner Hunting of Fox & Wolfe (new ed.) sig. C.j Either he runneth away with the mony, or he tarieth still among his neighbours.

1600–1 State Papers Edinb. Reg. House No. 108/10 He..ran away with the keyis.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 12 The rest of the Jewes gave their seeming assistance..whilst he run away with coat and doublet.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 245 That they would..set sail, and run away with the Ship.

1781 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Feb. in Thraliana (1942) I. 483 I was saluted with..an Account of Lancaster our favourite Abroad-Clerk running away with Two Thousand Pounds.

1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 299 At that time, ladies were not quite so easily run away with as Columbine.

1867 J. R. Houlding Austral. Capers 294 On his return to the coach he found that Bingi had run away with the gun.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 49 Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere.

1990 R. Rosenbaum Gen. & Blond Ghost in Trav. with Dr. Death (1991) 106 Whenever some international house-of-cards deal collapsed, he'd always be the one to say it was ‘the other guy’ who ran away with the Swiss-account numbers.

2008 G. Packer Betrayed 99 The traffickers ran away with the documents and the money of the rest of the group.

(b) figurative. Esp. with reference to the obtaining of undeserved praise, credit, etc.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > gain or win (a success, etc.)

to run away with1698

score1883

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by effort or competition

winc1330

gain1548

to carry away1565

to run away with1822

1589 E. Bunny Briefe Answer Quarrels R. P. 74 I will not suffer you quietly to runne away with that gainefull point of your doctrine.

1616 T. Gainsford Secretaries Studie 103 Howeuer men may runne away with the titles of honour and greatnesse; yet..in the professing of friendship, there is a manifest dutie to bee obserued toward the meanest.

1698 in Harleian Misc. (1809) III. 343 The marshals du camp ran away with it clearly to raise the siege.

1722 J. Blair Our Saviour's Divine Serm. on Mount I. xxii. 129 Other People may run away with the Praise and Reward of the Good Action.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. viii. 245 What! are they to run away with all the reputation, and we to undergo all the trouble?

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 380 Any prescribed medicine..will seem to have effected the cure, and will run away with the credit of having done so.

1897 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 304 I really could not allow Maynooth to run away with the credit or reproach of this performance.

1911 Wilson's Photogr. Mag. May 231/1 The personal aggrandizement of a few men who run away with the honors and glory.

1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 4 Heckathorne isn't one to run away with all the kudos. ‘I have to give the offensive line a lot of the credit.’

2000 N. Kizenko Prodigal Saint v. 193 While many admired him, others were aggrieved that he was running away with all the glory.

c. To accept, believe, or take up with (an idea, etc.), hurriedly or without due consideration; to give undue credence to.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe too readily [verb (intransitive)]

overtrust?c1225

overtrowa1393

to run away with1574

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 169 If you can haue but one writer new or olde, of your side,..you runne away with the matter, as though you had scripture, reason, Doctors, and all.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 186 It is great wonder that Iosephus, and Philo,..runne away with the common acceptation.

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 60 A great Anatomist, whom I find running away with an errour instead of a conceited verity.

1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) To run away with (to fancy, or imagine) a thing.

1789 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXVI. 218 The Public might not run away with the belief that the Senate of England decided any great question as a Senate, when so few Members were present.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) x. 127 Don't run away with that opinion, sir!

1890 Sat. Rev. 29 Nov. 610/1 To let Dr. Barnardo run away with the notion that [etc.].

1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France xv. 188 The wise men did not want any division to run away with the notion that it did not have a lot to learn yet.

1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xix. 182 Don't run away with the idea that the Swiss do nothing but yodel and make condensed milk.

2008 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 15 May 88 The last thing we want to do..is to allow excellent students to run away with the impression that they are being singled out for praise.

d. To consume, use up, exhaust (a resource, esp. money), esp. at an unexpectedly rapid rate.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > use up completely or exhaust

stanch1338

exhaust1541

soak1577

tire1589

to suck dry1592

to run away with1622

exantlate1660

to spin out1718

rack1778

overteem1818

deplete1850

to stream out1894

1622 N. Breton Strange Newes sig. B3 ^v No man must put his land into mony, lest the Bankerout runne away with his inheritance.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying i. §3. 26 We make our lives short, and lust runs away with all the vigorous and healthful part of it.

1746 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 413 [This] with Bushe's chattering and showing me her drawings, has run away with my morning.

1795 Rep. Comm. Waste Lands & Common Fields (Board of Agric.) 9 The difference of the price runs away with all the profit that could be got from the milk.

1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 221 The cost of gathering runs away with much of the saving effected in cutting.

1890 Mrs. H. Wood House of Halliwell II. vii. 175 Caroline's illness..had run away with all the ready money.

1921 S. A. Donham Spending Family Income xii. 118 Operating charges..need constant attention or they run away with much of one's surplus.

1995 R. B. Outhwaite Clandestine Marriage Eng. 118 Too frequent coronations would run away with the considerable governmental profits that he envisaged flowing from his scheme.

e. Of the legs: to carry (a person) quickly forward, as if independently.

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1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 199 His Case appears to me like honest Teague's, When he was run away with, by his legs.

1887 Belgravia Sept. 276 I..could hardly prevent my legs from running away with me.

1922 R. F. Griggs Valley of ten Thousand Smokes 231/1 Our legs fairly ran away with us. Despite the accumulated weariness of the day before and the strain of the night, we made the trip to Ukak in record time.

1989 R. Frame Penelope's Hat ii. iv. 40 She left them and let her legs run away with her down the hill.

f. Nautical. To haul on (a line) by walking or running steadily. Frequently in to run away with it.

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1843 Jack's Edition of Life at Sea xviii. 159 Captain Bullhead..began to encourage the men to run away with the yard rope.

1859 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 2 374 The boatswain..‘pipes’, the falls are ‘married’, ‘the men run away with it’, and the boat ‘is up’.

1887 J. C. Hutcheson White Squall viii. 113 ‘Hoist away, men!’ cried Mr. Marline. ‘Run away with the falls, you lubbers,’ echoed Moggridge.

1917 Bluejacket's Man. (U.S. Navy) (ed. 5) 296 The rest of the heaving line..is received by men previously detailed, who run away with the heaving line and haul the hawser ashore.

1973 D. Pope Governor Ramage R. N. vii. 78 Ease away and haul in; run away with it, lads.

g. To win (a sporting contest, a prize, etc.) easily or by a clear margin.

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1886 Gettysburg (Pa.) Compiler 6 July When it came to voting in the convention, Quay's selection of a partner in business ‘on the hill’ ran away with the prize on the first ballot, A. Wilson Norris getting 142 votes to 102 for Grimeson.

1931 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 2 June 7/7 With Stanford out of the national collegiate meet, Southern California is virtually certain to run away with the title.

1969 A. Bennett Forty Years On i. 14 We aren't a rich school, we aren't a powerful school, not any more. We don't set much store by cleverness at Albion House so we don't run away with all the prizes.

1993 Non-League Football Today Mar. 6/2 Many supporters will wonder why, if their team run away with the League championship they should not be promoted regardless of their facilities and solvency.

4. intransitive.

a. Originally: (of a horse, etc.) to rush off ungovernably, to bolt; (occasionally of a vehicle) to be pulled away by a bolting horse or horses. Also (in later use esp.) in extended use: (of any vehicle, as a steam engine, railway train, etc.) to move off uncontrollably.

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a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. xli. 303 B. another boy whipt the horse, the horse ran away against the will of A. and ran over a child and kild it.

1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship iii. 17 When a horse has run away.

1857 Times 26 Sept. 9/5 The violent shock..broke the hook of the tender..and the engine ran away for about 200 yards before the driver could bring it up.

1863 London Society Feb. 131/1 The horses of her carriage ran away. A gentleman who was passing succeeded in stopping them.

1891 G. D. Galton La Fenton I. xi. 255 Your dog-cart ran away and you were thrown out.

1903 Times 13 Jan. 7/5 The horses attached to the carriage ran away. Mr. Moody was thrown out.

1968 M. T. Malloy Racing Today 42/1 A couple of other horses meanwhile may be running away with their jockeys hanging on for dear life.

1974 A. Clayton & D. C. Savage Govt. & Labour in Kenya ii. 46 On the Magadi line in one such accident a train ran away killing eighteen men and injuring twenty-nine.

2008 Fosse Way Mag. (Nexis) 10 Oct. 8 Wagons..left the track and rolled down an embankment when the train ran away at Great Elm on Monday evening.

b. More generally: (of a machine or piece of machinery) to go out of control; (of a process, temperature, etc.) to proceed or increase uncontrollably.

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1869 Architect 30 Jan. 71/1 While the works were in full operation, the mill engine ‘ran away’, scattering destruction..in all directions.

1885 Standard 9 Mar. 3/5 The winding engine ‘ran away’, owing to the sudden loss of weight upon the drum.

1935 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Sept. 1074/2 ‘Ethylene at a temperature above 350°C. and under a pressure of 175 kg. per sq. cm...decomposes with explosive violence.’ Fortunately, this was not found to be the case, but in many experiments the temperature ‘ran away’.

1945 Rev. Mod. Physics 17 482 If the reaction was not to ‘run away’, it was essential to make use of neutrons of very low energy in the individual steps of the chain process.

1953 Times 31 Oct. 2/7 We have no practical experience of what happens if a reactor runs away.

1982 Times 24 Mar. 15/7 It is difficult to see this market running away.

2009 C. Vogel Build your own Electric Motorcycle viii. 168 The back EMF can be reduced, creating a serious condition under no load where the motor can run away and explode.

5. intransitive. Frequently with from.

a. Chiefly Hunting. Of an animal being pursued: to build up a substantial distance between itself and its pursuers. Of a hound: to draw away from the hunters. Now rare.

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1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxv. 284 When I am Pursu'd, says the Hare, I can shew the Dogs a Fair pair of Heels, and run away from 'em at pleasure.

1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xvii. 209 A good huntsman will seldom suffer his head hounds to run away from him.

1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 2 Sept. 607 I saw three hares, in one day, run away from the dogs.

1846 Sporting Rev. Jan. 48 The fox ran away for one hundred yards.., before they [sc. hounds] laid hold of him a second time.

1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 517/2 The fox..is so intelligent and so fleet that, with a proper start, he can usually elude or run away from a pack of hounds.

1907 R. H. Williams With Border Ruffians ix. 322 We generally found them [sc. game] pretty full, and not in condition to run away from the hounds.

1938 Times 3 Jan. 3/6 From Vitifer Mine hounds ran away from horses during a burst of 11 minutes.

b. In extended use: to establish a decisive lead over one's opponents in a race, or (more generally) in any sporting competition; = to pull away 3c at pull v. Phrasal verbs.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip

to leave behinda1393

overgoc1425

preventa1500

outgo1530

out-trot1555

outstrip1567

stripa1592

outpacea1596

out-swift1606

to have (also get) the speed ofa1616

outstretcha1642

to give (a person or thing) the go-by1642

to gain bounds of1653

outrace1657

outspeed1661

to cast behind1681

distance1691

belag1721

repass1728

outfoot1740

outdistance1789

fore-reach1803

to have the foot of1832

to run away1843

slip1856

short-head1863

tine1871

forespeed1872

outrate1873

1843 Times 1 June 6/1 It does not appear that any other horse had a chance of success against this the winner, who certainly ran away from all opponents.

1880 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 9 Jan. 6/8 The amateur got 10, 13, 14, and 11, during which time Reynor ran away with 15, 16, 35, 35, 22, and 14.

1896 Derby Mercury 10 June 7/5 Grice..was overtaken by the tandem, who ran away easily.

1927 Daily Express 24 Aug. 2/7 The visitors were behind by one goal at the third chukker, but after that they improved and ran away.

1994 P. Bjarkman Baseball with Lat. Beat 305 It is not enough to prevent Puerto Rico from running away from the pack with five-straight opening victories.

2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xi. 300 He was leading, running away from the field, when he fragged the rear-end gear.

6. intransitive. Of a plant: to grow wild, rank, or luxuriant, esp. due to not being adequately grazed or tended. Also with from (grazing animals). Cf. bolt v.² 2d.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > grow well or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > grow excessively

to run away1793

batten1855

1793 Ann. Agric. 21 81 A fine tract of rich marsh land..with a vast quantity of grass, quite run away, the land not being half stocked.

1794 Ann. Agric. 22 394 To keep a strict watch on the grass, that it may not run away from the sheep.

1843 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 312/1 The rainy weather..produced opposite effects; the barley plants having run away too much into straw.

1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 11 While other parts of the field may be found to have ‘run away’ in abundant seasons, these parts are always found fed down to the very roots.

1906 E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock Ideal Thoroughbred Stud 15 Under no circumstances should the grass be allowed to run away from the animals, and get into flower and seed.

1943 Agriculture 50 364 Heavy stocking is desirable, or the grass will ‘run away’.

1998 P. Gregory Earthly Joys 498 You have to pull the plants which are running away and drowning the rest.

单词	to run away
释义	> as lemmas to run away to run away 1. intransitive. a. To make off hurriedly, take to flight, flee; esp. to retreat hurriedly in the face of danger or opposition. Frequently with from.he who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day: see live v.¹ Phrases 11a. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee fleec825 afleeeOE atrina1000 atfleec1000 to run awayOE to turn to or into flighta1225 to turn the ridgec1225 atrenc1275 atshakec1275 to give backa1300 flemec1300 startc1330 to take (on oneself) the flighta1500 to take the back upon oneselfa1500 fly1523 to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530 to flee one's way1535 to take to one's heels1548 flought?1567 fuge1573 to turn taila1586 to run off1628 to take flighta1639 refugea1641 to run for it1642 to take leg1740 to give (also take) leg-bail1751 bail1775 sherry1788 to pull foot1792 fugitate1830 to tail off (out)1830 to take to flight1840 to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845 guy1879 to give leg (or legs)1883 rabbit1887 to do a guy1889 high-tail1908 to have it on one's toes1958 OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Kings (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1881) I. 402 Sceaðan þa afligdon færlice ða licmenn, þæt hi..urnon aweg swa hraðe swa hi besawon on ðone reþan floc. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1364 An bucc rann þær aweȝȝ all cwicc. ?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) 136 (MED) Loke hem [sc. the gates of hell] nou, wose may, Ich lete hem stonden and renne away. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 3661 (MED) Ne saw he neuere be-fore þat day Hert ne hare so renne a-way. c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 316 This [read is] that a tame best that is ay feyn To renne away when he is lest agast? 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 695/2 I runne awaye from myne enemye, or any daunger. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiij^v The Lyncolnshyre men..threw away their coates, the lighter to runne away, and fled. ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Dj^v Thay ryn heidlang to battell, and from battell ryn cowartly away. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 164 The present was the season, else the enemy would bee run away. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 426 If you put Black Ants into a Bank of the Red [ants], the Black..will not meddle with the Red, but..run away. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 94 The King..rated them for running away, as he called it, though they really retreated in good Order. 1777 'Squire Randal's Excursion round London x. 103 The dogs by natural instinct ran away from the city dog-killer. 1804 Nelson Let. 12 Aug. (1846) VI. 150 That gentleman has thought proper to write a letter stating that the Fleet under my command ran away. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 276 This..Belgian hussar..was too good a soldier to disobey his Colonel's orders to run away. 1915 D. Haig Diary 26 Sept. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 156 The whole mass of infantry of the two new divisions was running away in great disorder and had abandoned the guns. 1964 L. B. Honwana in R. Rive Mod. Afr. Prose 108 All the dogs of the village were frightened of Toto, and even the biggest of them ran away when he showed his temper. 2005 New Yorker 26 Dec. 110/2 He..imagines himself fighting, as in a cloak-and-dagger movie, running away from a crazy man who is threatening him with a knife. b. figurative. Esp. with reference to refusal or unwillingness to accept or come to terms with something. ΚΠ 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xx. sig. M1^v Fugitiue Diuines, that like cowards..runne away from their Text. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xiii. 125 An evill man..is not a friend unto himselfe, but flies and labours to runne away from himselfe, and is never in so bad company, as when he is alone. 1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 102 That I may once more set up for a Man of some Parts, or else run away from my Senses as fast as I can. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxxix. 133 None of us could get out of him what so disturbed him. We should too soon hear, he said... He was out each day; and said, he wanted to run away from himself. 1833 H. G. Keene tr. Persian Fables 72 We attempt to run away from the troubles of that state of life to which we are adapted by Providence. 1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 391/1 I don't care for the people who settle difficulties by turning tail and running away from them. 1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon iii. i. 152 You've spent eight years running away from yourself. 1956 E. Fromm Art of Loving iv. 114 They must learn to be close to each other without running away in the many ways in which this is customarily done. 1966 Listener 17 Nov. 718/2 The whole of the world ran away from the pound, and if this doesn't reveal an inflationary situation, what does? 2009 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 27/5 Maybe there was a part of me that was running away from my sexuality as a teenager. c. Used jocularly in the negative (in expressions such as it won't run away) to give assurance of the permanence, stability, or fixity of something or someone. ΚΠ 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) xiii. 34 Why—we can see the Church another day, Don't be afraid—St. Paul's can't run away. 1837 J. M. Morton Sentinel i. i. 10 in Acting National Drama I. Never mind Schloppsen, you'll find the post here when you come back; it won't run away! 1888 C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone II. xxi. 191 The charms of ‘the halls of Ivor’..which, after all, would not run away. 1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iv. iii. 515 There's no earthly reason why you should go back... The house won't run away. 1973 J. Porter It's Murder with Dover vii. 65 What's your sweat? This Tiffin bird's not going to run away. 2001 D. Samuels Filthy Rich (2002) 41 The chicken soup isn't going to run away if the Seder takes a couple of extra minutes. 2. intransitive. a. To go away, esp. hurriedly, surreptitiously, or in secret, from where one is expected or required to stay; to abscond, desert, etc. Frequently with from (a place, an institution, (occasionally) a person). Also figurative.In quot. OE with reflexive dative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond to run awayOE elope1596 to step aside1620 abscond1652 shirk1681 decamp1751 levant1797 absconce1823 skip1865 skin1871 to shoot the crow1887 sneak1896 to go through1933 to take a run-out powder1933 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 454 Se latteow wearð gebolgen and þone blindan forlet, arn him aweg and se oðer nyste hu he ham come. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 50 (MED) A, der God..I haue ronnyn a-wey fro þe. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 47 ‘Where is he?’ tyte will she spyr; If I tell her, ‘ron away’, hir answere bese belife, ‘nay, sir!’ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 695/2 He was aboute to ronne awaye, and he had done it in dede if I had nat taken the better hede. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) Pref. to Rdr. Scholers..be runne awaie from the Schole. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 127 There were foure-score Christian slaues, who hauing cut their Captaines throat.., runne away from Constantinople. 1674 London Gaz. No. 896/4 Run away..a Blackamoor Man..Iron-marked in his Brest with the sign of a Greyhound. 1759 S. Johnson Let. 9 Nov. (1992) I. 188 Being disgusted in the house he ran away to Sea. 1793 ‘A. Pasquin’ Life Late Earl of Barrymore (ed. 3) 13 Mr. Stone had a tenant run away. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 111 Please, Sir, I think Smike's run away, Sir. 1870 G. W. Dasent Ann. Eventful Life II. xii. 227 I would run away, I would enlist, I would take orders—anything rather than marry Mary. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 196 She's a born wife and mother, maam. Thats why my children all ran away from home. 1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire vii. 183 Servant girls ran away to London to seek their fortunes. 2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons iii. i. 193 He had violated the pact his father made by running away from his new master..on their first journey together. b. To elope with another person (also with to). Also with together. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [verb (intransitive)] > elope to run away1592 elope1628 to run off1725 1592 Arden of Feversham iv. iii. 9 Didst thou ever see better weather to run away with another man's wife, or play with a wench at pot-finger? 1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque C ij b Doe not I know that thou wilt run away with the Gentleman? 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. I3^v That she should sleight me, and run away with a wages-fellow, that is but a petty Cleark and a Serving-man. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 95 She took it in her head..to run away with a nobleman. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xiv. 105 The next girl that run away to a dancing master, or an ensign. 1830 ‘Messrs. Von Dunderhead’ Budget 122 I think we shall be good friends yet, though you ran away with Peggy, and I can tell you that I was awful mad at it. 1866 Catholic World Nov. 235/1 We ran away together and were married at Plymouth. 1912 I. V. Simonton Hell's Playground xv. 242 Placing a guard over her that she might not run away to a man of her own race. 1948 J. Thurber Let. 13 Sept. (2002) 432 We hit on the idea of Ellen announcing that she was going to run away with Joe. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession xxiii. 421 They had run away together, and were sharply aware of the usual connotations of this act. 2004 M. K. Andrews Hissy Fit xxxi. 187 What happened to the jilted sister, after her husband ran away with Jeanine? c. Simply: to depart, leave. Cf. to run along at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] wendeOE i-wite971 ashakec975 shakeOE to go awayOE witea1000 afareOE agoOE atwendOE awayOE to wend awayOE awendOE gangOE rimeOE flitc1175 to fare forthc1200 depart?c1225 part?c1225 partc1230 to-partc1275 biwitec1300 atwitea1325 withdrawa1325 to draw awayc1330 passc1330 to turn one's (also the) backc1330 lenda1350 begonec1370 remuea1375 voidc1374 removec1380 to long awaya1382 twinc1386 to pass one's wayc1390 trussc1390 waive1390 to pass out ofa1398 avoida1400 to pass awaya1400 to turn awaya1400 slakec1400 wagc1400 returnc1405 to be gonea1425 muck1429 packc1450 recede1450 roomc1450 to show (a person) the feetc1450 to come offc1475 to take one's licence1475 issue1484 devoidc1485 rebatea1500 walka1500 to go adieua1522 pikea1529 to go one's ways1530 retire?1543 avaunt1549 to make out1558 trudge1562 vade?1570 fly1581 leave1593 wag1594 to get off1595 to go off1600 to put off1600 shog1600 troop1600 to forsake patch1602 exit1607 hence1614 to give offa1616 to take off1657 to move off1692 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 sheera1704 to go about one's business1749 mizzle1772 to move out1792 transit1797–1803 stump it1803 to run away1809 quit1811 to clear off1816 to clear out1816 nash1819 fuff1822 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 mosey1829 slope1830 to tail out1830 to walk one's chalks1835 to take away1838 shove1844 trot1847 fade1848 evacuate1849 shag1851 to get up and get1854 to pull out1855 to cut (the) cable(s)1859 to light out1859 to pick up1872 to sling one's Daniel or hook1873 to sling (also take) one's hook1874 smoke1893 screw1896 shoot1897 voetsak1897 to tootle off1902 to ship out1908 to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909 to push off1918 to bugger off1922 biff1923 to fuck off1929 to hit, split or take the breeze1931 to jack off1931 to piss offa1935 to do a mick1937 to take a walk1937 to head off1941 to take a hike1944 moulder1945 to chuff off1947 to get lost1947 to shoot through1947 skidoo1949 to sod off1950 peel1951 bug1952 split1954 poop1961 mugger1962 frig1965 1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring x, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 230 Mrs. Beaumont..rose, and rang the bell for her carriage. ‘Mr. Palmer,’ said she, ‘I am afraid we must run away.’ 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 11 You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward? 1904 Punch 24 Aug. 132/2 Here the White Rabbit broke off. ‘I shall complete my story to-morrow,’ he said. ‘Now run away and play, like good animals.’ 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 62 Oh well, I'll have to put up with you. Run away and play. 2007 J. Shaw Angel ii. 24 As I bid them goodnight, the larger man..grabbed my arm, asking why I was running away so soon. 3. intransitive. to run away with. a. (a) Of a horse, etc.: to carry off ungovernably, bolt with (a person). See also sense 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > carry rider > bolt (with rider) to run away withc1330 bolt1820 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 2021 (MED) Þe hors..arnede awai wiþ þe king. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vi. vi. sig. k.vij^v Therwith his hors ranne awey with hym, and he felle doune to the erthe. 1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) iii. xiii. f. 65^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe He beinge to stubborne doeth ouermuche force you, and wyll nedes run awaye with you whether you will or not. a1652 A. Wilson in F. Peck Desiderata Curiosa (1735) II. xii. 25 My spotted Nag..being younge & not well waigh'd, run away with mee. 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 8 A fiery Horse, that ran away with him..as he wheel'd about under a Walk of Orange Trees. 1704 Lives, Eng. & Forein I. 317 The Marquiss De Villequier's Horse ran away with him at the Tilt by an Accident. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 28 It is far from improbable, that he may run away with you. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 15 451/1 The horse ran away with him. a1867 C. J. Andersson Notes Trav. S. Afr. (1875) 321 Axel's ox ran away with and threw him, breaking girths, nose-rein, &c. 1915 G. B. Grinnell Fighting Cheyennes xvii. 214 His horse ran away with him, and he could not control it. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Dec. 44/2 On parade his untrained horse regularly ran away with him, and three times in a week he was thrown. (b) figurative. Esp. of an idea, emotion, etc.: to be of such force or strength as to be beyond the ability of (a person, one's reason, etc.) to control it; to sway or persuade beyond what is justified. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 1 I thought to come and holde you.., lest your boke shoulde runne awaye with you. 1605 N. Breton Poste with Packet: 2nd Pt. sig. C^v Take heede of Poetry, least it runne away wth thy wit. 1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage sig. A2 My Poetry will never run away with me; but the good fortune of finding so many Honourable Patrons..has transported me. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋2 His desires run away with him. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 12 Don't let your Passion run away with your Senses. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vii. 152 Our anger runs away with our reason. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 812 The accelerating nerves often..run away with the heart. 1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 120 He was an imaginative man, and sometimes his imaginative hypotheses ran away with him. 1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) ix. 131 I'm sorry, I'm afraid I've let my feelings run away with me. b. (a) To depart, in haste or surreptitiously, having taken possession of (esp. something to which one is not entitled); to make off with. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > take surreptitiously [verb (transitive)] forsteala940 stealc950 undernimc1175 to run away with?c1430 embezzle1469 steal?1473 surrept1548 cloyne1549 abstract1555 secrete1749 smuggle1768 to run off1821 snakea1861 sneak1883 snitch1904 palm1941 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 214 (MED) Ellis oþere broþelis wolden renne awey wiþ riche mennus good. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xlix. sig. e ij ^v/2 They can or may begyle ony man of his good as they done full ofte and renne awaye with other mennes goodes. c1565 W. Turner Hunting of Fox & Wolfe (new ed.) sig. C.j Either he runneth away with the mony, or he tarieth still among his neighbours. 1600–1 State Papers Edinb. Reg. House No. 108/10 He..ran away with the keyis. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 12 The rest of the Jewes gave their seeming assistance..whilst he run away with coat and doublet. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 245 That they would..set sail, and run away with the Ship. 1781 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Feb. in Thraliana (1942) I. 483 I was saluted with..an Account of Lancaster our favourite Abroad-Clerk running away with Two Thousand Pounds. 1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 299 At that time, ladies were not quite so easily run away with as Columbine. 1867 J. R. Houlding Austral. Capers 294 On his return to the coach he found that Bingi had run away with the gun. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 49 Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere. 1990 R. Rosenbaum Gen. & Blond Ghost in Trav. with Dr. Death (1991) 106 Whenever some international house-of-cards deal collapsed, he'd always be the one to say it was ‘the other guy’ who ran away with the Swiss-account numbers. 2008 G. Packer Betrayed 99 The traffickers ran away with the documents and the money of the rest of the group. (b) figurative. Esp. with reference to the obtaining of undeserved praise, credit, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > gain or win (a success, etc.) to run away with1698 score1883 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by effort or competition winc1330 gain1548 to carry away1565 to run away with1822 1589 E. Bunny Briefe Answer Quarrels R. P. 74 I will not suffer you quietly to runne away with that gainefull point of your doctrine. 1616 T. Gainsford Secretaries Studie 103 Howeuer men may runne away with the titles of honour and greatnesse; yet..in the professing of friendship, there is a manifest dutie to bee obserued toward the meanest. 1698 in Harleian Misc. (1809) III. 343 The marshals du camp ran away with it clearly to raise the siege. 1722 J. Blair Our Saviour's Divine Serm. on Mount I. xxii. 129 Other People may run away with the Praise and Reward of the Good Action. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. viii. 245 What! are they to run away with all the reputation, and we to undergo all the trouble? 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 380 Any prescribed medicine..will seem to have effected the cure, and will run away with the credit of having done so. 1897 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 304 I really could not allow Maynooth to run away with the credit or reproach of this performance. 1911 Wilson's Photogr. Mag. May 231/1 The personal aggrandizement of a few men who run away with the honors and glory. 1989 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. 4 Heckathorne isn't one to run away with all the kudos. ‘I have to give the offensive line a lot of the credit.’ 2000 N. Kizenko Prodigal Saint v. 193 While many admired him, others were aggrieved that he was running away with all the glory. c. To accept, believe, or take up with (an idea, etc.), hurriedly or without due consideration; to give undue credence to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > believe too readily [verb (intransitive)] overtrust?c1225 overtrowa1393 to run away with1574 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 169 If you can haue but one writer new or olde, of your side,..you runne away with the matter, as though you had scripture, reason, Doctors, and all. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 186 It is great wonder that Iosephus, and Philo,..runne away with the common acceptation. 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. i. 60 A great Anatomist, whom I find running away with an errour instead of a conceited verity. 1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) (at cited word) To run away with (to fancy, or imagine) a thing. 1789 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXVI. 218 The Public might not run away with the belief that the Senate of England decided any great question as a Senate, when so few Members were present. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) x. 127 Don't run away with that opinion, sir! 1890 Sat. Rev. 29 Nov. 610/1 To let Dr. Barnardo run away with the notion that [etc.]. 1918 F. Palmer Amer. in France xv. 188 The wise men did not want any division to run away with the notion that it did not have a lot to learn yet. 1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xix. 182 Don't run away with the idea that the Swiss do nothing but yodel and make condensed milk. 2008 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 15 May 88 The last thing we want to do..is to allow excellent students to run away with the impression that they are being singled out for praise. d. To consume, use up, exhaust (a resource, esp. money), esp. at an unexpectedly rapid rate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > use up completely or exhaust stanch1338 exhaust1541 soak1577 tire1589 to suck dry1592 to run away with1622 exantlate1660 to spin out1718 rack1778 overteem1818 deplete1850 to stream out1894 1622 N. Breton Strange Newes sig. B3 ^v No man must put his land into mony, lest the Bankerout runne away with his inheritance. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying i. §3. 26 We make our lives short, and lust runs away with all the vigorous and healthful part of it. 1746 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 413 [This] with Bushe's chattering and showing me her drawings, has run away with my morning. 1795 Rep. Comm. Waste Lands & Common Fields (Board of Agric.) 9 The difference of the price runs away with all the profit that could be got from the milk. 1862 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 23 221 The cost of gathering runs away with much of the saving effected in cutting. 1890 Mrs. H. Wood House of Halliwell II. vii. 175 Caroline's illness..had run away with all the ready money. 1921 S. A. Donham Spending Family Income xii. 118 Operating charges..need constant attention or they run away with much of one's surplus. 1995 R. B. Outhwaite Clandestine Marriage Eng. 118 Too frequent coronations would run away with the considerable governmental profits that he envisaged flowing from his scheme. e. Of the legs: to carry (a person) quickly forward, as if independently. ΚΠ 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 199 His Case appears to me like honest Teague's, When he was run away with, by his legs. 1887 Belgravia Sept. 276 I..could hardly prevent my legs from running away with me. 1922 R. F. Griggs Valley of ten Thousand Smokes 231/1 Our legs fairly ran away with us. Despite the accumulated weariness of the day before and the strain of the night, we made the trip to Ukak in record time. 1989 R. Frame Penelope's Hat ii. iv. 40 She left them and let her legs run away with her down the hill. f. Nautical. To haul on (a line) by walking or running steadily. Frequently in to run away with it. ΚΠ 1843 Jack's Edition of Life at Sea xviii. 159 Captain Bullhead..began to encourage the men to run away with the yard rope. 1859 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 2 374 The boatswain..‘pipes’, the falls are ‘married’, ‘the men run away with it’, and the boat ‘is up’. 1887 J. C. Hutcheson White Squall viii. 113 ‘Hoist away, men!’ cried Mr. Marline. ‘Run away with the falls, you lubbers,’ echoed Moggridge. 1917 Bluejacket's Man. (U.S. Navy) (ed. 5) 296 The rest of the heaving line..is received by men previously detailed, who run away with the heaving line and haul the hawser ashore. 1973 D. Pope Governor Ramage R. N. vii. 78 Ease away and haul in; run away with it, lads. g. To win (a sporting contest, a prize, etc.) easily or by a clear margin. ΚΠ 1886 Gettysburg (Pa.) Compiler 6 July When it came to voting in the convention, Quay's selection of a partner in business ‘on the hill’ ran away with the prize on the first ballot, A. Wilson Norris getting 142 votes to 102 for Grimeson. 1931 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 2 June 7/7 With Stanford out of the national collegiate meet, Southern California is virtually certain to run away with the title. 1969 A. Bennett Forty Years On i. 14 We aren't a rich school, we aren't a powerful school, not any more. We don't set much store by cleverness at Albion House so we don't run away with all the prizes. 1993 Non-League Football Today Mar. 6/2 Many supporters will wonder why, if their team run away with the League championship they should not be promoted regardless of their facilities and solvency. 4. intransitive. a. Originally: (of a horse, etc.) to rush off ungovernably, to bolt; (occasionally of a vehicle) to be pulled away by a bolting horse or horses. Also (in later use esp.) in extended use: (of any vehicle, as a steam engine, railway train, etc.) to move off uncontrollably. ΚΠ a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. xli. 303 B. another boy whipt the horse, the horse ran away against the will of A. and ran over a child and kild it. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship iii. 17 When a horse has run away. 1857 Times 26 Sept. 9/5 The violent shock..broke the hook of the tender..and the engine ran away for about 200 yards before the driver could bring it up. 1863 London Society Feb. 131/1 The horses of her carriage ran away. A gentleman who was passing succeeded in stopping them. 1891 G. D. Galton La Fenton I. xi. 255 Your dog-cart ran away and you were thrown out. 1903 Times 13 Jan. 7/5 The horses attached to the carriage ran away. Mr. Moody was thrown out. 1968 M. T. Malloy Racing Today 42/1 A couple of other horses meanwhile may be running away with their jockeys hanging on for dear life. 1974 A. Clayton & D. C. Savage Govt. & Labour in Kenya ii. 46 On the Magadi line in one such accident a train ran away killing eighteen men and injuring twenty-nine. 2008 Fosse Way Mag. (Nexis) 10 Oct. 8 Wagons..left the track and rolled down an embankment when the train ran away at Great Elm on Monday evening. b. More generally: (of a machine or piece of machinery) to go out of control; (of a process, temperature, etc.) to proceed or increase uncontrollably. ΚΠ 1869 Architect 30 Jan. 71/1 While the works were in full operation, the mill engine ‘ran away’, scattering destruction..in all directions. 1885 Standard 9 Mar. 3/5 The winding engine ‘ran away’, owing to the sudden loss of weight upon the drum. 1935 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Sept. 1074/2 ‘Ethylene at a temperature above 350°C. and under a pressure of 175 kg. per sq. cm...decomposes with explosive violence.’ Fortunately, this was not found to be the case, but in many experiments the temperature ‘ran away’. 1945 Rev. Mod. Physics 17 482 If the reaction was not to ‘run away’, it was essential to make use of neutrons of very low energy in the individual steps of the chain process. 1953 Times 31 Oct. 2/7 We have no practical experience of what happens if a reactor runs away. 1982 Times 24 Mar. 15/7 It is difficult to see this market running away. 2009 C. Vogel Build your own Electric Motorcycle viii. 168 The back EMF can be reduced, creating a serious condition under no load where the motor can run away and explode. 5. intransitive. Frequently with from. a. Chiefly Hunting. Of an animal being pursued: to build up a substantial distance between itself and its pursuers. Of a hound: to draw away from the hunters. Now rare. ΚΠ 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxv. 284 When I am Pursu'd, says the Hare, I can shew the Dogs a Fair pair of Heels, and run away from 'em at pleasure. 1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xvii. 209 A good huntsman will seldom suffer his head hounds to run away from him. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 2 Sept. 607 I saw three hares, in one day, run away from the dogs. 1846 Sporting Rev. Jan. 48 The fox ran away for one hundred yards.., before they [sc. hounds] laid hold of him a second time. 1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 517/2 The fox..is so intelligent and so fleet that, with a proper start, he can usually elude or run away from a pack of hounds. 1907 R. H. Williams With Border Ruffians ix. 322 We generally found them [sc. game] pretty full, and not in condition to run away from the hounds. 1938 Times 3 Jan. 3/6 From Vitifer Mine hounds ran away from horses during a burst of 11 minutes. b. In extended use: to establish a decisive lead over one's opponents in a race, or (more generally) in any sporting competition; = to pull away 3c at pull v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip to leave behinda1393 overgoc1425 preventa1500 outgo1530 out-trot1555 outstrip1567 stripa1592 outpacea1596 out-swift1606 to have (also get) the speed ofa1616 outstretcha1642 to give (a person or thing) the go-by1642 to gain bounds of1653 outrace1657 outspeed1661 to cast behind1681 distance1691 belag1721 repass1728 outfoot1740 outdistance1789 fore-reach1803 to have the foot of1832 to run away1843 slip1856 short-head1863 tine1871 forespeed1872 outrate1873 1843 Times 1 June 6/1 It does not appear that any other horse had a chance of success against this the winner, who certainly ran away from all opponents. 1880 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 9 Jan. 6/8 The amateur got 10, 13, 14, and 11, during which time Reynor ran away with 15, 16, 35, 35, 22, and 14. 1896 Derby Mercury 10 June 7/5 Grice..was overtaken by the tandem, who ran away easily. 1927 Daily Express 24 Aug. 2/7 The visitors were behind by one goal at the third chukker, but after that they improved and ran away. 1994 P. Bjarkman Baseball with Lat. Beat 305 It is not enough to prevent Puerto Rico from running away from the pack with five-straight opening victories. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xi. 300 He was leading, running away from the field, when he fragged the rear-end gear. 6. intransitive. Of a plant: to grow wild, rank, or luxuriant, esp. due to not being adequately grazed or tended. Also with from (grazing animals). Cf. bolt v.² 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > grow well or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > grow excessively to run away1793 batten1855 1793 Ann. Agric. 21 81 A fine tract of rich marsh land..with a vast quantity of grass, quite run away, the land not being half stocked. 1794 Ann. Agric. 22 394 To keep a strict watch on the grass, that it may not run away from the sheep. 1843 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 312/1 The rainy weather..produced opposite effects; the barley plants having run away too much into straw. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 11 While other parts of the field may be found to have ‘run away’ in abundant seasons, these parts are always found fed down to the very roots. 1906 E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock Ideal Thoroughbred Stud 15 Under no circumstances should the grass be allowed to run away from the animals, and get into flower and seed. 1943 Agriculture 50 364 Heavy stocking is desirable, or the grass will ‘run away’. 1998 P. Gregory Earthly Joys 498 You have to pull the plants which are running away and drowning the rest. extracted from runv. < as lemmas
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