What does run off mean?
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What does run off mean? - The Free Dictionary
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run off - The Free Dictionary
(The thief made off with our silver the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe)
(The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out)
(Drive away potential burglars drive away bad thoughts dispel doubts The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers)
(The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas)
(The water wastes back into the ocean)
Other vocabulary
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.
