run off
Dictionary
verb
- To flee or depart quickly.
"Don't run off before the end of the event."
- To make photocopies, or print.
"Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out."
- To write something quickly.
"Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days."
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
"They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof."
- To cause to flow away.
"to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace"
- To chase someone away.
"If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off."
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
"This radio runs off batteries."
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