running away

1. 1.

   the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be

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Questions about running away

What does running away mean?

running away means "the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are expected to be".

Is running away a common word?

running away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.