run off
phrasal verbrun off
- (British English) (of a liquid) to flow out of a container
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run something off
- to copy something on a machine
- Could you run off twenty copies of the agenda?
- to cause a race to be run
- The heats of the 200 metres will be run off tomorrow.
- to make a liquid flow out of a container
run off/away (together) | run off/away with somebody
- to leave home, your husband, wife, etc. in order to have a relationship with another person
- He and the next-door neighbour ran off together.
- He ran off with the next-door neighbour.