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To run off

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to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace.

See also: Run



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There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow--were not all these against Phileas Fogg?
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
To his dismay and astonishment he found a Giant lying at the entrance of the wood; he was about to run off as fast as his legs could carry him, when the Giant called out: 'Don't be afraid, I won't harm you.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
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
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