run off
About 1.79 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To flee or depart quickly.
Don't run off before the end of the event.
- verb To make photocopies, or print.
Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out.
- verb To write something quickly.
Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days.
- verb (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof.
- verb To cause to flow away.
to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace
- verb To chase someone away.
If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off.
- verb To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
This radio runs off batteries.
- verb To have diarrhea. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Similar words
absquatulate chase away elope drive out abscond decamp drive off go off dispel drive away
Word family
ran off running off runs off
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