runaway

Definition

A person or animal that runs away or has run away; a person, animal, or organization that escapes captivity or restrictions.

Etymology

Deverbal from run away.

Example Sentences

• "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."