RUNNING AWAY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("running away" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "running away"):

elopement (the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married))

escape; flight (the act of escaping physically)

Credits

Context examples:

No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one little purple china dog with an extra-large head, which came to the wall and barked at them in a tiny voice, afterwards running away again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Here was I, in my eagerness to get on, refusing to wait only five minutes for my sister, breaking the promise I had made of reading it aloud, and keeping her in suspense at a most interesting part, by running away with the volume, which, you are to observe, was her own, particularly her own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Unjust!—unjust! said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Because he ran at the end of the longest rope, the dogs had always the view of him running away before them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well, my dear Jane, I believe we must be running away.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“You used us abominably ill,” answered Mrs. Hurst, “running away without telling us that you were coming out.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I felt more miserable and destitute than I had done at any period of my running away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I am not running away," he replied with child-like defiance, at the same time pulling on his mittens.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Bad boy, be quiet! Sit down and think of your own sins, don't go making me add to mine. If I get your grandpa to apologize for the shaking, will you give up running away?" asked Jo seriously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)