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Definition: TO RUN AWAY |
TO RUN AWAY1. To flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance. |
Crosswords: TO RUN AWAY |
| English words defined with "TO RUN AWAY": To cut one's stick, To stump it. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO RUN AWAY": TO HOP THE TWIG, TO SCAMPER, TO WHIP OFF. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Had to run away with my tail between my legs. (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro; writing credit: Hayao Miyazaki; Monkey Punch) I'm not going to run away again. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) So you tried to run away, but it didn't work did it? (The Rescuers; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Ted Berman) | |
Lyrics | I don't want to run away but I can't take it, I don't understand (If You're Not The One; performing artist: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD) Showed you where to run away (Blurry; performing artist: Puddle Of Mudd) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Miguel De Cervantes | To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. |
Samuel Butler | Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The third manner is not to speak to the dark man nor even to look at him, and to run away as fast as you can. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Perhaps they had stolen a monstrance to run away with it and sell it somewhere. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "TO RUN AWAY": To run away with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO RUN AWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Aymara | jaltaña. (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 逃 (to escape, to flee), 出走 (to flee). (various references) | ||||
German | weglaufen (break away, run away). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | elszalad (slip away, to make off, to pop off, to scuttle away, to scuttle off), elfut (flew, flown, run away, skedaddle, to fly, to give legs, to run off, to scuttle away, to scuttle off, to show a clean pair of heels, to skedaddle, to take one's heels). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 遁'出す (to escape from), 落延びる (to escape safely), 落ち延びる (to escape safely), 逃'走る (to flee), 逃'出す (to escape from), 逃'失せる (to escape), 逃'る (to escape), 走り去る . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | おちのびる (to escape safely), に'うせる (to escape), に'る (to escape), に'はしる (to flee), に' す (to escape from), はしりさる. (various references) | ||||
Maya | puudz. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay unray awayay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u . . . dag. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | apa-dvarata, parâiti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-n-o-r-t-u-w-y" | |
-2 letters: runaway. | |
-3 letters: aroynt, notary, outran, outwar, ratany, runway, unwary, yantra. | |
-4 letters: antra, aorta, atony, aunty, noway, ratan, rayon, rowan, ruana, runty, tawny, towny, trona, unary, warty, yourn, yurta. | |
-5 letters: anoa, anta, arty, aunt, aura, auto, away, awny, awry, nary, nota, nowt, rant, rato, raya, roan, rota, rout, runt, ryot, tarn, taro, tony, tora, torn. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      52 55 4E      41 57 41 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   R U N   A W A Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      0041 0057 0041 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492525548235573559 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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