verb
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To run.
verb
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To move swiftly.
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(fluids) To flow.
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(of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
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To control or manage, be in charge of.
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He is running the candidate's expensive campaign.
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To be a candidate in an election.
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I have decided to run for governor of California.
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To make run in a race or an election.
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He ran his best horse in the Derby.
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To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
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to run through life; to run in a circle
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To be presented in the media.
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Her picture ran on the front page of the newspaper.
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To print or broadcast in the media.
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run a story; run an ad
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To smuggle (illegal goods).
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to run guns; to run rum
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To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
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Looks like we're gonna have to run the tomatoes again.
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To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
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To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.
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Don't run that software unless you have permission.
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To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
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to run from one subject to another
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To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
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Our supplies are running low.
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To cost a large amount of money.
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Buying a new laptop will run you a thousand dollars.
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Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
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My stocking is running.
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To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
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To cause to enter; to thrust.
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to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into one's foot
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To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
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To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
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to run a line
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To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
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to run the risk of losing one's life
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To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
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To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
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To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
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To control or have precedence in a card game.
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Every three or four hands he would run the table.
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To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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To have growth or development.
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Boys and girls run up rapidly.
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To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
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Certain covenants run with the land.
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To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
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To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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To speedrun.
Examples of ran in a Sentence
The next few days ran together.
I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them.
His searching gaze ran over her face again.
I ran a marathon for that shirt!
She ran her hand over the smooth clean surface of the baler.
He ran up to them.
The young girl ran off without a word.
The two boys saw him and ran to fetch his shoes.
When next the door was opened you ran out and hid yourself--and the piglet was gone.
Following Señor Medena up the stairs, she ran her hand along the smooth wood, enjoying the cool silky soft feel of it.
As Benjamin ran down the street, he wondered what he should buy.
He let go of the fox, and it ran out.
There was blood running down his pant leg but he ran on his leg so it couldn't have been too bad.
She ran her hand down his sleek neck and hugged him.
I ran it by Quinn and Martha, both of whom kicked the decision back to me.
At the kitchen door she nearly ran into a dark form.
On a sudden thought I ran upstairs before any one could stop me, to put on my idea of a company dress.
In some places, within my own remembrance, the pines would scrape both sides of a chaise at once, and women and children who were compelled to go this way to Lincoln alone and on foot did it with fear, and often ran a good part of the distance.
He nibbled at her shirt and she ran her fingers across his velvety muzzle.
He counted to three then ran.
When a young man I ran away from home and joined a circus.
The two boys ran for the teacher's shoes, and each claimed the honor of carrying them to him.
Princess Mary ran up the steps.
She dressed hurriedly in the clothes Sarah had loaned her and ran fingers through her hair, wishing she had a comb.
They'd bring her back and beg us to hold her while they ran.
Cynthia ran water in the pot.
She forced herself to sew the arrow wound the best she could then ran from the room, vomiting in the bathroom.
A strange energy ran between them, as if she could absorb the faint stream of his magic.
His own Guardians stayed out of arm's reach of him, and humans picked up and ran.
At first, we just ran.
For example, before you ran into her in the mortal world, there was a ninety seven percent chance you would've killed her the first time you met.
And then she ran into several of the cat-like creatures roaming the ship.
Some of them ran towards the east, some towards the west, and some towards the south.
He hurried back to the pathway, and then ran to his mother.
It ran into a narrow cleft which he had not seen before, and then through a long, dark passage which was barely large enough for a man's body.
He could not finish, and ran out of the room.
Rostov ran up to him with the others.
That aim was attained in the first place of itself, as the French ran away, and so it was only necessary not to stop their flight.
Destiny ran to Carmen, her eyes large.
She ran to the horse and lifted her skirt high enough to get a foot into the stirrup.
He chuckled and ran cool fingers across her hot cheek.
A Paul Weber crossed in and out of the great north on the dates I ran.
He ran his hands through his wet hair again.
She recognized the petite blonde, who wrenched open the door and ran.
He wasn't surprised when she whirled and ran.
She shot him and ran him over.
It was the same feeling that Deidre got every time she let herself think of what happened when her deal ran out.
The minute he released her on the ground, she ran after Jonathan.
He ran his tongue over his pointed teeth and stood in the center of her living room, pensive and hungry.
Deidre ran a hot bath.