Run Off

Definition: Run Off

Run Off

Verb

1. Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.

2. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out".

3. Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars'; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers".

4. Run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas".

5. Run off as waste: "The water wastes back into the ocean".

6. Reproduce by xerography.

7. Decide (a game) by a runoff.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Metallurgy

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Synonyms: Run Off

Stealing

Convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize; (lay violent hands on).

Crosswords: Run Off

You'll go run off and hide on me (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

Do you think I came all this way to run off to Switzerland with you (The Blue Max; writing credit: Jack Hunter; Ben Barzman)

Jackie say, Hey Diane let's run off ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

Well you know Diane, we oughta run off to the city ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

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Surface run off, waste pile at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Acid run off at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Remedial activity at Iron Mountain Mine included collecting and treating acid drainage from mine run off. Iron Mountain Mine was mining factory for gold, copper and zinc. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Storm water run off adjacent to the Turning Basin No. 3 project. This area is unofficially called PAL creek. It is seen here in its pre restored condition. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Topsoil as well as farm fertilizers and other potential pollutants run off unprotected farm fields when heavy rains occur. Credit: Lynn Betts.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "run off": run off the rails ♦ run off with ♦ To run off ♦ to run off at the mouth. Additional references.

Albanian

largohem (backdown, backtrack, depart, evacuate, get along, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, make oneself scarce, move out, recede, retire, run away, secede, subside, take away, turn out, veer), ik (begone, blast off, clear off, depart, escape, exit, fly away, get along, get away, get out, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, pass off, push off, retire, run away, shoot through, take away, take off), arratisem (break, break out, decamp, elope, escape, evade, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away, take flight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, decamp, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, slope, take flight, take to one's heels), ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail). (various references)

Bulgarian 

правя (act, advance, contract, deliver, do, drive, enounce, gargle, lay, leave, make, pay, pull, put forward, put out, strike, transact), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter, take flight), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out), изгонвам (cast off, chase, clear off, dispossess, drive away, drive out, eject, evict, feeze, hunt out, lay, oust, put out, see off, send away, send out, send packing, shoot out, spurn, throw out, thrust out, turf out, turn away, turn out), изкарам (rush up, start), изкарвам (be through, dislodge, fare, fetch, finish, get, get through, make, oust, pass through, serve), изтичам (determine, escape, expire, finish, issue, leak, outflow, run, run out, sluice, wear through), източвам (draft, draw, draw off, wiredraw), изплъзвам се (escape, slip away, slip off, slip out), пиша гладко, рецитирам гладко, провеждам (carry through, conduct, instrument, pursue, put through, transact, wage), прогонвам (clear out, dispel, drive away, exorcise, exorcize, see off, shag, shoo, shut away), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, stray, swerve, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander), оттичане (drainage, eduction, efflux), офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), казвам бързо, казвам гладко, рецитирам бързо, пиша бързо. (various references)

Chinese 

流失 (be drained away, to run off, to wash away). (various references)

Czech

vypustit (deflate, drain, launch, let down, let off, let out, release), utéci (abscond, boil over, elope, escape, flee, run away, scape, take off), odboèit (branch off, decline, deflect, deviate, digress, stray, strike off). (various references)

Danish

skadesopgørelse, skadesafvikling, gennemstøbe (flow off). (various references)

Dutch

laten overlopen (flow off). (various references)

Finnish

valaa lävitse (flow off). (various references)

French

tirer, s'enfuir (run away), liquidation de sinistres, laver, fuir (cut and run, run away), finale, dégorger, écrire en vitesse. (various references)

German

türmen (abscond, bunk, pile, pile up, skedaddle, take to smb.'s heels, to bunk), stichwahl (final ballot, second ballot), stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, prickle, puncture, ring in, spear, stab, stick, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), entscheidungslauf (runoff), durchgieβen (flow off), durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go over, go through, pass through, peruse, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through), durchbrennen (abscond, blow, blow out, burn out, burn through, burn-out, elope, elopement, run away), abziehen (bottle, decal, deduct, detract, disengage, escape, fire, flay, go away, go off, move away, peel away, peel back, print, print off, pull off, pull out, remove, roll away, sharpen, siphon off, skin, slope away, slope off, squeeze the trigger, strip, strip off, strop, subtract, subtraction, take away, take off, to deduct, to strop, to subtract, withdraw, withdrawal). (various references)

Greek 

υπερχειλίζω (flow off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לברוח (escape, flee, fling off, get away, make haste, make off, run, run away, scamper, take flight, take to ones heels, turn tail). (various references)

Hungarian

oldalirányú lefutás, ledarál (grind, mince, to gab, to rattle, to rattle off, to rattle out, to rush through), kinyom (to crush out, to expel, to force out, to gouge, to run off), kifolyat (bled, to bleed, to empty, to run off), elszökik (break out, escape, run away, to abscond, to break out, to chase oneself, to run off, to show a clean pair of heels, to take a powder, to take one's heels, to wind out). (various references)

Indonesian

kabur (bleary, blurred, bolt (of a horse), decamp, elope, elopment, fading, flee, fuzzy, unclear). (various references)

Italian

tracimare (flow off, overflow, overtop), spareggio (play off), sgorgare (extravasation, flow, gush, gush out, pour, spring, spurt), scappare di corsa (run away), fuggire (abscond, bolt, escape, flee, fly, make off, run, run away, stampede), ballottaggio finale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駆け出す (to break into a run, to run off, to start running), 駈け出す (to break into a run, to run off, to start running), 幅寄せ (being run off the road). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かけ� す (to break into a run, to run off, to start running), はばよせ (being run off the road). (various references)

Manx

teaumey (bail, bail as small boat, bale, baling, decant, decantation, drain, draining, draw off, drawing off, empty, empty of liquid, pour out, pouring, pump empty, pump out, tax as strength; teeming, tax; teeming, tip, tip as lorry), roie jeh, roie ersooyl (flow away, fly away, run away). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray offay.(various references)

Portuguese

escoar (bail, buttress, drain, lapse, leak, ooze), escapar (bypass, come off, dodge, escape, evade, flee, get away, get away with, leave out, omit, overlook, run away), desenrolar (deploy, reel off, uncoil, unreel, unroll, untwine, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Russian 

убежать (outrun), удрать (bolt, cut one's lucky, get away, give leg bail, give leg-bail, make off, nip away, scram, take to one's heels), задолжать (owe money). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umnožiti (copy, double, multiply), sleteti (fly down, land, set down, touch down), pobeći (break out, elope, escape, flee, get away, make off, run, run away, take flight), otrčati (run over), kopirati (blueprint, copy, duplicate, trace). (various references)

Spanish

rebosar (beam, boil over, brim, brim over, overflow, shine), vaciar (blow, blow out, bottle, clear out, deplete, draw off, embowel, empty, hold back, hollow, pour away, pour off, tap out, turn out, unpack, vacate, void), imprimir (carry, impress, imprint, output, print), huir (abscond, avoid, escape, evade, flee, flight, fly, outbreak, run, run away, shy away from, turn tail), enumerar (count, enumerate, recite, reckon up, rehearse, tally), decidir (adjudge, arrange, clinch, decide, decision making, determine, dispose, have in mind, judge, make up one's mind, rule, seal). (various references)

Swedish

släppa ut (blow off, discharge, exhale, let off, let out, pass, release), kasta ner (dash down, jot, jot down, toss off), gjuta igenom (flow off). (various references)

Turkish

kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), firar etmek (desert the colors, desert the colours, escape, fly, run away, take flight), beraberliği çözücü yarış, akıp gitmek (elapse, flee, lapse, range, slide, slip by, stream). (various references)

Ukrainian

утекти (break out, bunk, escape, evade, make away, mizzle, nip, pull it, shank, whip away), відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, lapse, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside), відціжувати. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: runoff.

-2 letters: four, ruff.

-3 letters: fon, for, fou, fro, fun, fur, nor, off, our, run, urn.

-4 letters: no, nu, of, on, or, un.

+1 letter: runoffs, turnoff.

+2 letters: turnoffs.

+3 letters: fungiform.

+4 letters: buffoonery, coiffuring, funnelform.

+5 letters: insufflator, offscouring, overruffing, unfortified.