runaway

Meaning of runaway

noun
  1. A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.
    Runaway children are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.
  2. A vehicle (especially, a train) that is out of control.
  3. (usually attributive) An object or process that is out of control or out of equilibrium.
  4. The act of running away, especially of a horse or teams.
  5. An overwhelming victory.
    The home side won in a runaway.
adjective
  1. Having run away; escaped; fugitive
    a runaway thief
  2. Easily won, as a contest
    a runaway victory at the polls
  3. Unchecked; rampant
    runaway prices
  4. Deserting or revolting against one's group, duties, expected conduct, or the like, especially to establish or join a rival group, change one's life drastically, etc.
    The runaway delegates nominated their own candidate.

Information about runaway

  • The plural form of runaway is: runaways.
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Hyphenation of runaway

run-away

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • runaway is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

runaway synonyms

Meaning blowout:

blowout, romp, laugher, walkaway

Meaning fugitive:

fugitive, fleer

Words that rhyme with runaway

away, Hardaway, Nodaway, foldaway, hadaway, speedaway, standaway, areaway, driveaway, fadeaway, gieaway, giveaway, hereaway, hideaway, seaway, takeaway, thereaway, whereaway, Ashaway, Hathaway, washaway, Rockaway, breakaway, knackaway, knockaway, lockaway, pickaway, rockaway, soakaway, walkaway, workaway, Callaway, Gallaway, Whirlaway, fallaway, haulaway, rollaway, welaway, wellaway, Conaway, Dunaway, Greenaway, Onaway, Spanaway, minaway, turnaway, unaway, Garaway, caraway, carraway

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