Meaning

5 senses
  1. A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.

    Runaways are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.

    Ausreißer, Entflohener, Entlaufener

    бегле́цbegléc

  2. A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control.

  3. (attributive, figuratively, usually)An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.

    A trim runaway can make an airplane almost impossible to fly.

  4. The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams.

  5. (figuratively)An overwhelming victory.

    The home side won in a runaway.

    an easy victory

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom was killed by a runaway horse.

  2. The police are in pursuit of the runaway.

  3. Tom is a runaway.

    ruТом - дезертир. — marafon

  4. You're a runaway, aren't you?

  5. Are you runaways?

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a person or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a person or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions:

Origin

Deverbal from run away.

Deverbal from run away.

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Forms

plural: runaways

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedrun away
Derivednonrunaway

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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