run away

Questions about run away

What does run away mean?

run away means "flee; take to one's heels; cut and run". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for run away?

Close synonyms include scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is run away a common word?

run away is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.