phrasal verb · neutral
run from
/rʌn frəm/RUN·from
speakingtask2
to avoid dealing with something or to flee away from someone or something
Examples
“Many people run from difficult conversations.”
“He ran from the police after the incident.”
“You can't just run from your responsibilities.”
Band 8 sentence
“Politicians often run from direct questions about policy failures instead of offering concrete solutions.”
Collocations
- run from responsibility
- run from the law
- run from problems
Word family
run verbfrom preposition
Common mistakes
run away the problem→run from the problem
avoid from responsibility→avoid responsibility / run from responsibility
Say it for a higher band
5avoid→6escape→7+run from
Synonyms
avoid
escape
Easily confused
avoid
“Instead of addressing the issue, he continued to run from it.”
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