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Run off
verb
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Verb
- 1 To flee or depart quickly.
"Don't run off before the end of the event."
- 2 decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff wordnet
- 3 To make photocopies, or print. idiomatic
"Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out."
- 4 reproduce by xerography wordnet
- 5 To write something quickly. idiomatic
"Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days."
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- 6 force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings wordnet
- 7 To pour or spill off or over.
"They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof."
- 8 leave suddenly and as if in a hurry wordnet
- 9 To cause to flow away.
"to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace"
- 10 run off as waste wordnet
- 11 To chase someone away.
"If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off."
- 12 run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along wordnet
- 13 To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
"This radio runs off batteries."
- 14 run away secretly with one's beloved wordnet
- 15 To have diarrhea.
- 16 To recite, especially items on a list.
"He ran off the checklist one by one but still missed a couple of items."
- 17 To steal (horses). transitive
"He ran off a pony from the ranch."
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