Runaway
['rʌnəweɪ] or ['rʌnəwe]
Definition
(noun.) an easy victory.
(adj.) completely out of control; 'runaway inflation' .
Inputed by Julio--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
(n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
(a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
(a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
(a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
(a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fugitive, deserter.
Checked by Dale
Examples
- For the dog, I know it to be the cur of the runaway slave Gurth, a useless fugitive like its master. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This way for the runaway convicts! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here is also a chain elevator, which raises the wheels out of the freight cars to a runaway on which they travel by gravity to the third floor of the main factory. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The process bears as much resemblance to statecraft as sitting backward on a runaway horse does to horsemanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No, said Joe; none but a runaway convict now and then. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Did not Lord Eldon himself, the most prudent of men, make a runaway match? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We want a party of runaway niggers, said Tom Loker. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There I got a dinner; and, while I was eating, several questions were asked me, as from my youth and appearance I was suspected of being a runaway. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When you came to me, a little runaway boy, all dusty and way-worn, perhaps I thought so. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I put it to you, John,--would _you_ now turn away a poor, shivering, hungry creature from your door, because he was a runaway? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The South, prior to the rebellion, kept bloodhounds to pursue runaway slaves who took refuge in the neighboring swamps, and also to hunt convicts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By this law every Northern man was obliged, when properly summoned, to turn out and help apprehend the runaway slave of a Southern man. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He is a runaway rogue and a vagabond, that's what he is, in English. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Cast myself on the mercy of my runaway idiot of a husband who had raised the scandal against me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There's two runaways in the swamps. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What set me on about country boys, and runaways, and good-for-nothings? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Oswald