Antonyms for run off
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : ruhn |
Phonetic Transcription : rÊŒn |
- abide
- accept
- aid
- alive
- appear
- around
- arrive
- assist
- capture
- come
- come in
- conceal
- confront
- continue
- current
- develop
- encounter
- endure
- enlarge
- estimate
- existing
- expand
- extend
- face
- fill
- found
- give up
- grow
- guess
- help
- hide
- hoarded
- incomplete
- increase
- join
- living
- meet
- neglect
- not count
- pour
- present
- remain
- rise
- saved
- stand
- stay
- stop
- stored
- strengthen
- subtract
- sufficient
- take on
- unfinished
- wait
- walk
- working
- yield
Definition of run off
Origin :- the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
- The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
- Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
- Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
- To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.
- As in gone : adj not present, no longer in existence
- As in abscond : verb run away, depart secretly
- As in make off : verb flee, run away
- As in print : verb produce writing, impression; reproduce
- As in jump bail : verb abscond
- As in lam : verb escape
- As in drain : verb seep, discharge liquid
- As in elope : verb run away to be married
- As in enumerate : verb list, count
- As in escape : verb break away from
Synonyms for run off
- abate
- abscond
- absent
- add up
- astray
- avoid
- away
- AWOL
- bail out
- beat it
- blow
- bolt
- break
- break out
- burned up
- burst out
- calculate
- circumvent
- cite
- clear
- clear out
- compose
- compute
- consumed
- count noses
- cut and run
- cut loose
- dead
- decamp
- decamped
- deceased
- decline
- decrease
- defunct
- depart
- departed
- desert
- detail
- diminish
- disappear
- disappeared
- disintegrated
- displaced
- disseminate
- dissipated
- dissolved
- dodge
- dog it
- done
- double
- down the drain
- dried up
- duck
- duck out
- dwindle
- effuse
- elapsed
- elope
- elude
- emerge
- ended
- engrave
- escape
- evade
- extinct
- exude
- fade
- figure
- filter off
- finished
- flee
- flow
- flow out
- flown
- fly
- fly the coop
- get
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go
- go AWOL
- go scot-free
- go secretly
- go south
- go to Gretna Green
- go to press
- hightail
- identify
- impress
- imprint
- inventory
- issue
- itemize
- jump
- keep tabs
- lacking
- leak
- leave
- leave dry
- leave town
- left
- let roll
- letter
- lost
- make a break
- make a getaway
- make away
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- make scarce
- mark
- mention
- missing
- moved
- name
- no more
- nonextant
- not a sign of
- not here
- number
- offset
- ooze
- osmose
- out the window
- over
- particularize
- pass
- passed
- past
- percolate
- play hooky
- publication calligraph
- publish
- pull out
- put to bed
- quit
- quote
- recapitulate
- recite
- reckon
- recount
- reduce
- rehearse
- reissue
- relate
- removed
- reprint
- retire
- retired
- run
- run away
- run down
- run for it
- run off
- run out on
- run-off
- scamper
- scoot
- scram
- set
- set type
- shifted
- shun
- skedaddle
- skip
- skip out
- slip
- slip away
- slip out
- sneak away
- specialize
- specify
- spell out
- spent
- split
- stamp
- steal away
- strike off
- sum
- take a powder
- take account of
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take off
- take on the lam
- taken a powder
- taken leave
- tally
- taper off
- tell
- tick off
- total
- transferred
- traveling
- trickle
- turned to dust
- vamoose
- vanish
- vanished
- well
- withdraw
- withdrawn
- work out of
- wriggle out
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