1540s, "one who flees," from verbal phrase, from run (v.) + away (adv.). Meaning "an act of running away" is from 1724.
runaway inflation
rumpus
rum-runner
run
runabout
runaround
runaway
runcible
runcinate
run-down
rundown
rune
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