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Synonyms for run

flee

take part

compete

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go

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operate

give a lift to

spread

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be staged

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  • be staged
  • be on
  • be presented
  • be produced
  • be put on
  • be performed
  • be mounted

be valid

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  • be valid
  • be in force
  • be legally binding

melt

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unravel

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smuggle

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chase

free use

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  • free use
  • unrestricted access to
  • a free hand in
  • unrestricted use of

tear

enclosure

slope

sudden demand for

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  • sudden demand for
  • pressure for
  • clamour for
  • rush for

in the long run

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on the run: in retreat

on the run: hurrying

run after something or someone

run along

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run away

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run away with something or someone: abscond with

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run away with something or someone: win easily

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  • win easily
  • walk it
  • romp home
  • win hands down
  • win by a mile

run for it

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run high

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  • be intense
  • be strong
  • be passionate
  • be vehement
  • be impassioned

run into someone

run into something: be beset by

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run into something: collide with

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run off

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run off with someone

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run on something or someone

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  • dwell on
  • be dominated by
  • be concerned with
  • be preoccupied with
  • revolve round
  • centre round
  • be fixated with

run out: be used up

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run out: expire

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run out of something

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  • exhaust your supply of
  • be out of
  • be cleaned out
  • have no more
  • have none left
  • have no remaining

run out on someone

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run over something: exceed

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  • exceed
  • overstep
  • go over the top of
  • go beyond the bounds of
  • go over the limit of

run over something or someone

run someone in

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run someone through

run something in

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  • break in gently
  • run gently

run something off

run something or someone down: criticize

run something or someone down: downsize

run something or someone down: knock down

run through something: rehearse

run through something: pervade

run through something: squander

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for run

to move swiftly on foot so that both feet leave the ground during each stride

to look to when in need

to complete a race or competition in a specified position

to move freely as a liquid

to come forth or emit in abundance

to change from a solid to a liquid

to proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance

to change or fluctuate within limits

to be performed

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to urge to move along

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to look for and pursue (game) in order to capture or kill it

to perform a function effectively

to set or keep going

to control or direct the functioning of

to import or export secretly and illegally

to separate or pull apart by force

to cause to penetrate with force

to control the course of (an activity)

to have charge of (the affairs of others)

run across: to find or meet by chance

run after: to follow (another) with the intent of overtaking and capturing

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run away: to break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation

run down: to lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless

run down: to pursue and locate

run down: to think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant

run down: to give a recapitulation of the salient facts of

run in: to take into custody as a prisoner

run in: to go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize

run into: to find or meet by chance

run into: to come up against

run into: to come to in number or quantity

run on: to talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially

run out: to make or become no longer active or productive

run out: to prove deficient or insufficient

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run out: to become void, especially through passage of time or an omission

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run through: to give a recapitulation of the salient facts of

run through: to look through reading matter casually

a trip in a motor vehicle

a small stream

a hole made by tearing

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a number of things placed or occurring one after the other

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Synonyms for run

a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely

an unbroken series of events

(American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team

a regular trip

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the act of running

the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation

unrestricted freedom to use

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the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)

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a small stream

a race between candidates for elective office

a row of unravelled stitches

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the pouring forth of a fluid

a short trip

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stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope

direct or control

have a particular form

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perform as expected when applied

change or be different within limits

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run, stand, or compete for an office or a position

cause to emit recorded audio or video

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move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something

be operating, running or functioning

change from one state to another

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cause to perform

be affected by

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occur persistently

carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine

pass over, across, or through

cause something to pass or lead somewhere

cause an animal to move fast

sail before the wind

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cover by running

extend or continue for a certain period of time

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set animals loose to graze

keep company

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run with the ball

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travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means

travel a route regularly

progress by being changed

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reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

come unraveled or undone as if by snagging

become undone

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His mind went back to the night when he had been frightened by thoughts of a giant that might come to rob and plun- der him of his possessions, and again as on that night when he had run through the fields crying for a son, he became excited to the edge of insanity.
When he fell over the roots of a tree and in falling struck his head, he arose and tried to run on again.
Here we are, dead beat, and yet I know we're close to the run in, if we knew the country."
So they tried back slowly and sorrowfully, and found the lane, and went limping down it, plashing in the cold puddly ruts, and beginning to feel how the run had taken it out of them.
He shall fight to the death with one of these pigs from thy sty," and he pointed with his spear to the men of my father's kraal, "and the one who survives shall be run down as they tried to run you down.
But as soon as he had found his breath again he was set to run for his life, and after him ran five chosen men.
Then he roused me up, and I took my turn of three hours; before the end of which it was broad day, and a very quiet morning, with a smooth, rolling sea that tossed the ship and made the blood run to and fro on the round-house floor, and a heavy rain that drummed upon the roof.
"Take them away," she commanded the guard, "and at six o'clock run them through the meat chopper and start the soup kettle boiling.
Fortunately, there was no one in the big cave at that moment, so he told Dorothy and Polly to run as fast as they could for the entrance, and out across the narrow bridge.
'Does--the one--that wins--get the crown?' she asked, as well as she could, for the run was putting her quite out of breath.
She came flying out of the wood over yonder--How fast those Queens CAN run!'
There was a little one-horse town about three mile down the bend, and after dinner the duke said he had ciphered out his idea about how to run in daylight without it being dangersome for Jim; so he allowed he would go down to the town and fix that thing.
The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on con- dition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
His mind was inclined to run, even as mine had run on Saturday, on military details.
Then they all ran harder than they had ever run in their lives; and the King's men, coming after them, began to run too; and the Captain ran hardest of all.