run out on sb/sth
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
to leave someone you are having a relationship with or something you are responsible for, without warning and usually causing problems:
She ran out on him two months ago, leaving him to take care of their two children.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the elbow idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- grow apart
- push
- split
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
- walk
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