From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrun away phrasal verb1 LEAVE A PLACEto leave a place, especially secretly, in order to escape from someone or something from Toby ran away from home at the age of 14. → runaway22 AVOIDto try to avoid dealing with a problem or difficult situation from You can’t just run away from your responsibilities.3 to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them They ran away together to get married. → run→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
run away• You would probably daydream or even want to run away.• This hostel helps runaways who don't want to go back to their families.• For the first six months, I thought only about running away.• It was to make sure we didn't run away.• She was very upset when he ran away.• When a Gingerbread Man jumped out of the oven and ran away, all sorts of people and animals gave chase.• He once ran away and was flogged on recapture.• I ran away at the age of twelve but my Dad came and found me at the bus station before I could leave town.• Thousands of children run away from home each year.• And sexually abused and physically battered kids run away from home.• At the age of fifteen, Malcolm ran away to California.run from• What was Madame Olenska running away from, and why did she feel the need to be safe?• He had no intention of trying to run away from any-thing.• Mariam ran away from her home in Gaza when her pregnancy began to show.• She and her confessor ran away from her incestuous father, a pagan chieftain.• Sandy had run away from home several times in her teens.• I realize she is trying to run away from me, she does not want me with her.• Most of the students ran away from me when I tried to talk to them.• Was he running away from or toward his childhood?run from• What was Madame Olenska running away from, and why did she feel the need to be safe?• He had no intention of trying to run away from any-thing.• Mariam ran away from her home in Gaza when her pregnancy began to show.• She and her confessor ran away from her incestuous father, a pagan chieftain.• I realize she is trying to run away from me, she does not want me with her.• Most of the students ran away from me when I tried to talk to them.• Was he running away from or toward his childhood? 