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Meanings of run off in English
Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings.
Synonyms
Examples for "bolt"
Examples for "bolt"
1
There's food in there, and a good strong bolt on the outside.
2
Siegrist added a middle bolt and took four days to work it.
3
The bolt came free, along with a good chunk of the wall.
4
Critics fear companies may simply choose to bolt to less costly states.
5
We made plans to return the following year with the bolt gun.
1
Captain Charles, I believe you are one of General Le Clerc's aides-decamp.
2
At the beginning of the second act I was obliged to decamp.
3
There was every prospect of a general decamp of all my people.
4
Ditch the HRH, hand back the diamonds and decamp to, say, Malibu.
5
Burglars work silently, and at the least noise decamp, as a rule.
1
And then they would abscond from the company of the anguished man.
2
I'm not planning to abscond in the black of night, you know!
3
It's true that cases sometimes proceed when defendants misbehave in court or abscond.
4
Wait till we get to it; otherwise they'll abscond on foot.
5
I'm glad to see that you didn't abscond to Ireland, too.
1
Ready to absquatulate all the dragons and rescue you.
2
We're not going to be able to absquatulate from these pirate yaps very easily, that's for sure.
3
I'll absquatulate on the desk.
4
I'm going to absquatulate, see?
5
Absquatulate was a big word, but she understood it, having come across it one day in the Dictionary.
1
She was too young-muchtoo young-muchtoo young-to go off by herself.
2
To understand that, we need to ask what makes food go off.
3
Before Baby left, he would go off for longer and longer times.
4
I didn't want to go off course, so I let things be.
5
The second meeting was to go off in less than ten minutes.
1
Then he would drop everything, and make off in the utmost consternation.
2
Crawford declined to say how much his company would make off abc.xyz.
3
If you're planning to make off to Cabo San Lucas, forget it.
4
He would probably make off with some of our best artworks, then.
5
They had soon realized there was money to make off the downtrodden.
Usage of run off in English
1
Mr Warner said Mr Turei was run off the road on purpose.
2
It was a great effort and we hope to run off that.
3
He was able to run off and has made it to safety.
4
This time he knew Patty wasn't the type to just run off.
5
He wouldn't just run off again, not after what happened last time.
6
I don't know why they want to run off and leave me.
7
They'd run off to get married, afraid he'd try to stop them.
8
I got in a shooting-scrape at home and had to run off.
9
After all, she had run off to sea dressed like a man.
10
Almost got run off the autobahn on the way in and, well-
11
From it run off smaller branches to supply the thumb and fingers.
12
Ronda Rousey and Natalya make there way out to run off Elias.
13
She held him tightly and told him to never run off again.
14
I hadn't talked to him since I'd run off to get married.
15
Do the rest of you run off and get some clothes on.
16
Ye have had a hard day, missie; run off with yer book.
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Translations for run off
Portuguese
Run off through the time
Run off across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Australia
Common
United Kingdom
Common
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