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RUN
- to leave; go on one's way
- to move by rapid steps [v RAN, RUNNING, RUNS]
- utilize a running play on offense used of a football team
- go without restraint move freely about at will let chickens run loose
- keep company consort a ram running with ewes ran with a wild crowd when he was young
- sail before the wind in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled
- am rove running about with no overcoat
- go rapidly or hurriedly hasten run and fetch the doctor
- go in urgency or distress resort runs to mother at every little difficulty
- make a quick, easy, or casual trip or visit ran over to borrow some sugar
- contend in a race
- enter into an election contest will run for mayor
- move on or as if on wheels glide file drawers running on ball bearings
- roll forward rapidly or freely
- pass or slide freely a rope runs through the pulley
- ravel lengthwise stockings guaranteed not to run
- sing or play a musical passage quickly run up the scale
- go back and forth ply the train runs between New York and Washington
- migrate or move in considerable numbers
- move up or down a river to spawn
- continue in force, operation, or production the contract has two more years to run the play ran for six months
- have a specified duration, extent, or length the manuscript runs nearly 500 pages
- continue to accrue or become payable interest on the loan runs from July 1
- st 1 rooms that run $50 a night
- produce by or as if by printing usually used with off ran off 10,000 copies of the first edition
- carry in a printed medium print every newspaper ran the story
- make (a series of counts) without a miss run 19 in an inning in billiards
- lead winning cards of (a suit) successively
- employ or supervise in espionage run an agent
- be full of or drenched with streets ran blood
- cause to produce a flow (as of water) run the faucet
- prepare by running a faucet run a hot bath
- melt and cast in a mold run bullets
- eat process refine run oil in a still run a problem through a computer
- to go, move, or depart quickly
- to take part in a race
- to be a candidate
- to flow
- to extend or continue
- to operate
- to total
- to recur persistently
- to manage
- to compete in
- act or period of running
- raveled line in knitting
- freedom of action
- scoring unit in baseball
- close or keen competition
- enjoyment or profit in return for one's expense
- over a long period
- as an immediate or temporary outcome
- moving quickly; hurrying about
- while running or in a hurry
- escaping or hiding from the police
- to meet or find accidentally
- to follow; chase
- to pursue or court the affections of, esp. in an aggressive manner
- to attempt to become friendly with or part of the society of
- (often fol. by with) to socialize; consort with
- to be unfaithful to one's spouse or lover
- to haul on a line by walking or running steadily
- to go away with, esp. to elope with
- to abscond with; steal
- to surpass others in; be outstanding in
- to go faster than a walk
- go steadily by springing steps so that both feet leave the ground for an instant in each step
- move at a fast gallop
- ee retreat escape dropped the gun and ran
- pass from one state to another run into debt
- flow rapidly or under pressure
- read dissolve colors guaranteed not to run
- discharge liquid (as pus or serum) a running sore
- throw out an elongated shoot of growth
- tend to produce or develop a specified quality or feature they run to big noses in that family
- to flee or escape; leave a place of confinement or control with the intention of never returning
- accompany as a valid obligation or right a right-of-way that runs with the land
- develop rapidly in some specific direction
- go in pursuit of hunt chase dogs that run deer
- cause to move or flow in a specified way or into a specified position run cards into a file
- to crash into
- to determine the winner of (a contest, race, etc.) by a runoff
- lie in or take a certain direction the boundary line runs east
- lie or extend in relation to something
- go back reach
- be in a certain form or expression the letter runs as follows
- be in a certain order of succession
- occur persistently musical talent runs in the family
- remain of a specified size, amount, character, or quality profits were running high
- have or maintain a relative position or condition (as in a race) ran third running late
- exist or occur in a continuous range of variation shades run from white to dark gray
- spread or pass quickly from point to point chills ran up her spine
- be current circulate speculation ran rife
- cause (an animal) to go rapidly ride or drive fast
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by running ran himself to death
- follow the trail of backward trace ran the rumor to its source
- enter, register, or enroll as a contestant in a race
- put forward as a candidate for office
- carry (the football) on a running play
- drive (livestock) especially to a grazing place
- provide pasturage for (livestock)
- keep or maintain (livestock) on or as if on pasturage
- pass over or traverse with speed
- run on or over in athletic competition runs the bases well run the floor
- accomplish or perform by or as if by running ran a great race run errands
- slip or go through or past run a blockade run a red light
- make oneself liable to incur ran the risk of discovery
- mark out draw run a contour line on a map
- permit (as charges) to accumulate before settling run a tab at the bar often used with up ran up a large phone bill
- to meet accidentally
- to amount to; total
- to follow in succession seamlessly
- to encounter
- to sail close to (a coast, vessel, etc.)
- to leave quickly; depart
- to create or perform rapidly or easily
- to drive away; expel
- to print or otherwise duplicate
- to abscond with (something); steal or borrow; take
- to elope
- to continue without interruption
- to add something, as at the end of a text
- travel on (as a river) in a boat run the rapids
- cause to penetrate or enter thrust ran a splinter into her toe
- itch
- cause to pass lead run a wire in from the antenna
- cause to collide ran his head into a post
- cause to pass lightly or quickly over, along, or into something ran her eye down the list
- cause or allow (as a vehicle or a vessel) to go in a specified manner or direction ran the car off the road
- direct the business or activities of manage conduct run a factory
- alter by addition ran his record to six wins and four losses
- make (a golf ball) roll forward after alighting
- to overwhelm; get the better of
- to drive a vehicle into
- to chase
- to peruse
- to stop
- to speak disparagingly of
- to find
- to tag out (a base runner) between bases
- to hurry away or flee, esp. to evade something
- to visit casually
- to include in a text, as something to be inserted
- to arrest; take to jail
- to add (matter) to text without indenting
- to break in (new machinery)
- to go through the motions of running without leaving one's original place
- to exist or work without noticeable change, progress, or improvement