Meaning

• To flee or depart quickly.

  "Don't run off before the end of the event."

• To make photocopies, or print.

  "Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out."

• To write something quickly.

  "Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days."

• (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.

  "They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof."

• To cause to flow away.

  "to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace"

• To chase someone away.

  "If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off."

• To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.

  "This radio runs off batteries."