runaway

Synonyms for runaway

adj out of control

noun. traitor

noun. fugitive from responsibility

noun. someone skilled at escaping

noun. fugitive

noun. person escaping from law or other pursuer

1540s, "one who flees," from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + away (adv.). Meaning "an act of running away" is from 1724.

The peculiar feelings one has who is a "runaway" are indescribable.

Neither was hurt, but it was the woman who pursued the runaway horse.

But I took you for a youngster, you know, a regular ten-year-old runaway.

A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.

To-morrow morning I'll be searching all over the house for my runaway.

That was just like my runaway, all innocent acting and make-believe.

Captain Zelotes made no attempt to follow the runaway couple.

Did you not gather that this was not only a runaway match, but a clandestine one?

It is made up of local scalawags and runaway rebels from Kentucky and Tennessee.

All this runaway shrubbery looked, in a way of speaking, inpenetrable.