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TO RUN AWAY

Definition: TO RUN AWAY

TO RUN AWAY

1. To flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


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)

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Modern Usage: TO RUN AWAY

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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.

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Commercial Usage: TO RUN AWAY

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Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO RUN AWAY

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Use in Literature: TO RUN AWAY

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Expression: TO RUN AWAY

Expression using "TO RUN AWAY": To run away with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO RUN AWAY

Language Translations for "TO RUN AWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Aymara

  

jaltaña. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO RUN AWAY

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

u . . . dag. (various references)

Avestan200-600

apa-dvarata, parâiti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN AWAY

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN AWAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      41 57 41 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01000001 01010111 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#87 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      0041 0057 0041 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492525548235573559

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INDEX

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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