run awayverb

• 1

  To flee by running.

  • The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
  • Sometimes I feel I've got to / Run away / I've got to / Get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
• 2

  To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.

  • My parents want me to take a bath every day? Fine, I'm running away.
  • "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that.[…]."
• 3

  To become a runaway. (of a device or vehicle)

  • The train's brakes failed and it ran away.
  • An autotrim failure can cause stabiliser trim to rapidly run away in the nose-up or nose-down direction.