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| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : ruhn-uh-wey |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌn əˌweɪ |
Definition of runaway
Origin :- 1540s, "one who flees," from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + away (adv.). Meaning "an act of running away" is from 1724.
- adj out of control
- noun person who is trying to escape
- The peculiar feelings one has who is a "runaway" are indescribable.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- Neither was hurt, but it was the woman who pursued the runaway horse.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- But I took you for a youngster, you know, a regular ten-year-old runaway.
- Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
- A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- To-morrow morning I'll be searching all over the house for my runaway.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- That was just like my runaway, all innocent acting and make-believe.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- Captain Zelotes made no attempt to follow the runaway couple.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- Did you not gather that this was not only a runaway match, but a clandestine one?
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- It is made up of local scalawags and runaway rebels from Kentucky and Tennessee.
- Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) » by John McElroy
- All this runaway shrubbery looked, in a way of speaking, inpenetrable.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
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