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/ˈɹʌnəweɪ/ · noun
A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions..
Runaways are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?
If any man of his owne heade and without leaue, walke out of his precint and boundes, taken without the princes letters, he is broughte againe for a fugitiue or a runaway with great shame and rebuke, and is sharpely punished.
On New Year's Day, 1850, a catastrophe, which it is fearful to contemplate, was averted by the aid of the telegraph. A collision had occurred to an empty train at Gravesend; and the driver having leaped from his engine, the latter started alone at full speed to London. Notice was immediately given by telegraph to London and other stations; and while the line was kept clear, an engine and other arrangements were prepared as a buttress to receive the runaway.
Runaways are rendered impossible, as the machine can be instantly stopped by means of a double brake connected with the driver's seat
We hear many ideas advanced as to the cause of engines running away, more especially in electric stations, while the wonder is that the runaways are so few.
Just south of Wamphray Station, they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.
The former Midland main lines out of Bristol were blocked for more than 18hr after a freight train runaway soon after midnight on February 7. "Jubilee" No. 45615 on the 4.20 p.m. Burton-Bristol freight, which conveyed a quantity of beer, lost control of its train on the 1 in 67 Fishponds incline and ran into the rear of empty stock [...].
Use runaway when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Runaway means A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions..
Common synonyms include fugitive, romp, uncontrolled, laugher.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Runaways are vulnerable to criminal exploitation.
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