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run off with someone or something

1. to take someone or something away, possibly running. (See also run off (with someone).) Fred ran off with Ken. They'll be back in a minute. Who ran off with my dictionary?

2. to capture and take away someone or something; to steal someone or something. The kidnappers ran off with little Valerie. The kids ran off with a whole box of candy, and the storekeeper is going to press charges.

See also: run

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And that's the reason I never would work for lonely widow old women ashore, when I kept my job-shop in the Vineyard; they might have taken it into their lonely old heads to run off with me. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context "But," he continued, in his fierce guttural tones, "if you run off with the red girl it is I who shall have to account to Tal Hajus; it is I who shall have to face Tars Tarkas, and either demonstrate my right to command, or the metal from my dead carcass will go to a better man, for such is the custom of the Tharks. A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context She sent Mercury, the messenger of the gods, to look for it, for she didn't dare leave the rainbow again, lest somebody should run off with that too. The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context			run fingers through hair run for run for it run for life run from run from to run head against a brick wall run high run in run in circles run in place run in the family run interference run into run into a stone wall run into the ground run it down run its course run like clockwork run like the wind run low run mouth run off run off at the mouth run off in all directions run off with run on run on all cylinders run onto run out run out at run out of run out of gas run out of some place run out of steam run out of time run out on run out the clock run over run over to run over with run ragged run rampant run rhymes run rings around run riot run scared run short Run that by again run the gamut run the gantlet			run of rafter run of rafter run of rafter Run Of Schedule Run Of Schedule Run Of Schedule Run Of Schedule Run of Site Run of stairs Run Of Station Run Of Station run of the coast Run of the House Run Of The Mill Run Of The Mill Run of the Press run off run off run off run off run off run off at the mouth run off at the mouth run off at the mouth run off at the mouth run off at the mouth run off in all directions Run Off Mother Figure Run Off River run off the rails run off with Run Offs Run Offs Run Offs Run Offs run on run on run on run on run on run on Run on a Bank Run on a Bank run on all cylinders Run on sentence Run on the bank Run on the bank Run on the banks Run on the banks run on top of run one's mouth run one's mouth run one's mouth run one's mouth run onto run out run out run out run out run out run out at

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