runaway
/ˈrʌn·əˌweɪ/ adj [not gradable] (not controlled)Definition
› being or seeming to be out of control, or happening suddenly and strongly: runaway health-care costs From the moment he launched the Boy Scout movement in 1908, it was a runaway success.
(Definition of runaway adj (not controlled) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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run with it idiom
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run-down adj
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run-in n
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run-up n
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runaround n
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runaway n person
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rundown n
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rung n STEP
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rung RING
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runner n BLADE
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