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Synonyms of run in English:
run
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verb
1‘she jumped out of her car and ran across the road’
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sprint, race, dart, rush, dash, hasten, hurry, scurry, scuttle, scamper, hare, bolt, bound, fly, gallop, career, charge, pound, shoot, hurtle, speed, streak, whizz, zoom, sweep, go like lightning, go hell for leather, go like the wind, flash, double
jog, lope, trot, jogtrot, dogtrot
informal tear, pelt, scoot, hotfoot it, belt, zip, whip, go like a bat out of hell, step on it, get a move on, get cracking, put on some speed, stir one's stumps
British informal hop it, bomb, leg it
North American informal boogie, hightail it, barrel, get the lead out
informal, dated cut along
archaic post, hie
ANTONYMS
dawdle
2‘the other three men turned and ran’
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flee, run away, run off, make a run for it, run for it, take flight, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, make a quick exit, make one's getaway, escape, head for the hills, do a disappearing act
informal beat it, clear off, clear out, vamoose, skedaddle, split, cut and run, show a clean pair of heels, turn tail, scram
British informal do a runner, scarper, do a bunk, leg it
North American informal light out, bug out, cut out, peel out, take a powder, skiddoo
Australian informal go through, shoot through
British vulgar slang bugger off
archaic fly
ANTONYMS
stay
3‘he decided to run in the marathon’
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compete, take part, participate
enter, be in
4‘my horse ran second to Suave Dancer in this race last year’
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finish, come in, come
5‘a shiver ran down my spine’
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go, pass, move, travel
roll, coast
6‘Grant ran his eye down the column of figures’
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cast, pass, skim, flick, slide
7‘a narrow, twisting road which runs the length of the Duddon valley’
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extend, stretch, reach, range, continue, go
8‘rainwater ran from the eaves’
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flow, pour, stream, gush, flood, glide, cascade, spurt, jet, issue
roll, course, slide, spill, trickle, seep, drip, dribble, leak
British informal sloosh
9‘the walls were running with condensation’
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stream with, drip with, be covered with, be wet with
be flooded by
10‘my nose was running’
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stream, drip, exude liquid, ooze liquid, secrete liquid
11‘a courtesy bus runs to Sorrento three times a day’
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travel, ply, shuttle, go, make a regular journey
12‘I'll run you back to your hotel’
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drive, give someone a lift, take, bring, ferry, chauffeur
transport, convey
13‘he runs a transport company’
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be in charge of, manage, administer, direct, control, be in control of, be the boss of, boss, head, lead, govern, supervise, superintend, oversee, look after, organize, coordinate, regulate
operate, conduct, carry on, own
preside over, officiate at
14‘he could no longer afford to run a car’
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maintain, keep, own, possess, have, drive
15‘they ran a series of tests’
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carry out, do, perform, fulfil, execute
16‘he left the engine running’
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operate, function, work, go, be in operation
tick over, idle
perform, behave
17‘the lease runs for twenty years’
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be valid, last, be in effect, operate, be in operation, be operative, be current, continue, be effective, have force, have effect
18‘the show ran in the West End for two years’
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be staged, be presented, be performed, be on, be put on, be produced
be mounted
be screened
last
19‘he first ran for president in 1984’
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stand for, stand for election as, stand as a candidate for, be a contender for, put oneself forward for, put oneself up for
20‘the Guardian ran the story on Friday’
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publish, print, feature, carry, put out, release, issue
21‘they run drugs for the cocaine cartels’
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smuggle, traffic in, deal in
22‘they were run out of town’
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chase, drive, hunt, hound, put to flight
noun
1‘his early morning run along the Embankment’
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sprint, race, dash, gallop, rush, spurt
jog, trot
2‘she volunteered to do the school run’
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route, way, course, journey
circuit, round, beat
3‘we went out for a run in the car’
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drive, ride, turn
trip, excursion, outing, jaunt, short journey, airing
informal spin, joyride, tootle
Scottish informal hurl
4‘the current run of unseasonably hot weather’
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period, spell, stretch, spate, bout
patch, interval, time
series, succession, sequence, string, chain, streak
5‘the budget accelerated a run on sterling’
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demand for, rush for, sudden request for, clamour for
6‘Margaret gave them the run of her home’
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free use of, unrestricted use of, unrestricted access to
a free hand in, a free rein in
7‘it's certainly different from the usual run of East European cafes’
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type, kind, sort, variety, class, category, order
8‘against the run of play, Mytchett scored a second goal’
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trend, tendency, course, direction, movement, drift, tide, current
tenor
9‘the wire mesh of a chicken run’
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enclosure, pen, coop, compound
10‘a steep run with 10 cm of fresh snow’
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slope, piste, track
bump run
North American trail
11‘she had a run in her nylons’
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rip, tear, snag, hole
British ladder
Phrases
- run after
‘ever since his school days, girls have been running after him’
SYNONYMS
pursue, chase, make romantic advances to, flirt with
informal make up to, make eyes at, give the come-on to, come on to, be all over
North American informal vamp
dated set one's cap at
‘he was dismayed to discover how much the farm had run down’
SYNONYMS
decline, degenerate, go downhill, become dilapidated, go to seed, fall into decay, decay, go to rack and ruin
informal go to pot, go to the dogs
ANTONYMS
recover, improve
1‘a run-down area of East London’
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dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, gone to rack and ruin, in ruins, broken-down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating
neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, depressed, down at heel, seedy, shabby, dingy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid
informal shambly, crummy
British informal grotty
North American informal shacky
Australian, New Zealand informal rumpty
ANTONYMS
smart
2‘by eating more leafy green vegetables you can avoid feeling run down and tense’
SYNONYMS
unwell, ill, poorly, out of sorts, unhealthy, peaky, not oneself, below par, in bad shape
tired, debilitated, drained, exhausted, fatigued, enervated, weak, worn out, washed out
British off, off colour
informal under the weather, crummy
British informal not up to snuff, not feeling up to snuff, ropy, knackered
Scottish informal wabbit
Australian, New Zealand informal crook
vulgar slang crappy
dated seedy, queer
rare peaked, peakish
ANTONYMS
healthy, well
1‘she finally ran a copy of the book down in Covent Garden’
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find, discover, locate, track down, trace, run to earth, unearth, hunt out, ferret out
2‘employers should run down their labour forces gradually’
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reduce, cut back on, cut, downsize, decrease, pare down, trim
phase out, wind down, wind up
ANTONYMS
increase
‘he quickly ran over the story’
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recapitulate, repeat, run through, go over, go through, reiterate, review
look through, look over, read through
informal recap
‘Campbell threatened to run him through with his sword’
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stab, pierce, transfix, impale
‘patriotic fervour was running high’
SYNONYMS
be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense
1‘she screamed and the men ran away’
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flee, run off, make a run for it, run for it, take flight, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, make a quick exit, make one's getaway, escape, head for the hills
informal beat it, clear off, clear out, vamoose, skedaddle, split, cut and run, show a clean pair of heels, turn tail, scram, hook it, fly the coop, skip off, do a fade
British informal do a runner, scarper, do a bunk, leg it
North American informal light out, bug out, cut out, peel out, take a powder, skiddoo
Australian informal go through, shoot through
archaic fly, levant
ANTONYMS
stay
2‘the administration has tried to run away from its responsibilities’
SYNONYMS
evade, dodge, get out of, shirk
avoid, disregard, ignore, take no notice of, pay no attention to, turn one's back on
informal shut one's eyes to, duck, cop out of
ANTONYMS
face up to, deal with
3‘Doyle ran away with another man's wife’
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run off with, elope with
4‘Mario Andretti ran away with the championship’
SYNONYMS
win easily, win hands down
informal win by a mile, walk it, romp home
1‘food supplies were running out’
SYNONYMS
be used up, dry up, be exhausted, be finished, give out, peter out, fail
exhaust
ANTONYMS
be plentiful
2‘they've run out of cash’
SYNONYMS
have none left, have no more of, be out of
use up, exhaust one's supply of, consume, eat up
sell out of
informal be fresh out of, be cleaned out of
3‘her contract was due to run out’
SYNONYMS
expire, come to an end, end, terminate, finish
lapse, be no longer valid
‘in a demonstration of classy centre-forward play he ran rings around the opposition’
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surpass, outshine, outclass, overshadow, eclipse, exceed, excel, transcend, cap, top, outstrip, outdo, put to shame, make look pale by comparison, put in the shade, be better than, beat, outplay, outperform, upstage, dwarf
informal be head and shoulders above, be a cut above, leave standing
archaic outrival, outvie
‘run along now, can't you see I'm busy?’
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go away, be off with you, shoo, on your way, make yourself scarce
informal scram, buzz off, skedaddle, scat, beat it, get lost, shove off, clear off
British informal hop it
South African informal hamba, voetsak
literary begone, avaunt
1‘her husband had long ago run through their money’
SYNONYMS
squander, fritter away, spend, spend like water, throw away, dissipate, waste, go through, consume, use up
informal blow
2‘the markedly sceptical attitude that runs through his writings’
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pervade, permeate, suffuse, imbue, inform, go through
3‘he ran through his notes again’
SYNONYMS
go over, go through, look over, look through, cast one's eye over, take a look at, run over
read, study, scan, peruse, review, examine, inspect
informal give something a once-over, give something the once-over
4‘okay, let's run through scene three again’
SYNONYMS
rehearse, practise, go through, go over, repeat, do again
recapitulate
North American run down
informal recap
1‘the plane was badly damaged when it ran into a parked aircraft’
SYNONYMS
collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, crash into, smash into, knock into, plough into, barge into, meet head-on, ram
North American impact
ANTONYMS
miss
2‘I ran into Hugo the other day’
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meet, meet by chance, run across, chance on, stumble across, stumble on, happen on
informal bump into
archaic run against
3‘the negotiators immediately ran into a problem’
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experience, encounter, meet with, be faced with, run up against, be confronted with, come face to face with
4‘Peter had been left with debts running into six figures’
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reach, extend to, be as high as, be as much as
1‘a con man on the run’
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on the loose, at large, loose
running away, fleeing, in flight, fugitive
informal AWOL
North American informal on the lam
2‘I've been on the run all day’
SYNONYMS
busy, rushing about, rushed off one's feet, dashing about, hurrying about, in a rush, in a hurry, on the move, active
informal on the go
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eventually, in the end, ultimately, when all is said and done, in the final analysis, in the fullness of time
British informal at the end of the day
‘food supplies were running low’
SYNONYMS
dwindle, diminish, become depleted, get less, be used up, become exhausted, be short, be in short supply, be tight
ANTONYMS
be plentiful
SYNONYMS
desert, abandon, leave in the lurch, jilt, leave high and dry, discard, cast aside, throw over, turn one's back on
informal walk out on, dump, ditch, leave someone holding the baby, leave flat
archaic forsake
SYNONYMS
be in charge, be in control, be the boss, be at the helm, be in the driving seat, be in the driver's seat, be at the wheel, be in the saddle, pull the strings, be responsible
call the shots
1‘the boy was run down by joyriders’
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run over, knock down, knock over, knock to the ground
hit, strike
2‘she began to run him down in front of other people’
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criticize, denigrate, belittle, disparage, deprecate, speak badly off, speak ill of, find fault with
revile, vilify
informal put down, knock, bad-mouth, have a go at
British informal rubbish, slag off
rare derogate, asperse
ANTONYMS
praise
SYNONYMS
diarrhoea, loose motions, looseness of the bowels
informal the skitters, the trots, Spanish tummy, Delhi belly, Montezuma's revenge, Aztec revenge, Aztec two-step
British informal the squits, gippy tummy, holiday tummy
North American informal turista
Medicine dysentery, lientery
archaic the flux, lax
ANTONYMS
constipation
SYNONYMS
flee, make a run for it, run away, run off, take flight, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, make a quick exit, make one's getaway, escape, head for the hills, take oneself off, decamp, abscond, do a disappearing act
informal beat it, clear off, clear out, vamoose, skedaddle, split, cut and run, show a clean pair of heels, scram, hook it, fly the coop, do a fade
British informal do a runner, scarper, do a bunk, leg it
North American informal light out, bug out, cut out, peel out, skiddoo
‘he has a history of heart disease, which runs in the family’
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be common in, be frequently found in, be inherent in
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arrest, take into custody, apprehend, detain, take in, take prisoner, put in jail, throw in jail
pick up, pull in, haul in, bust, nab, nail, do, collar, feel someone's collar
British pinch, nick
1‘three youths scrambled out of the car and ran off’
SYNONYMS
flee, run away, make a run for it, run for it, take flight, make off, take off, take to one's heels, make a break for it, bolt, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, make a quick exit, make one's getaway, escape, head for the hills, make oneself scarce, decamp, abscond, do a disappearing act
informal beat it, clear off, clear out, vamoose, skedaddle, split, cut and run, show a clean pair of heels, scram, hook it, skip off
British informal do a runner, scarper, do a bunk, have it away, have it away on one's toes, leg it
North American informal light out, bug out, cut out, peel out, take a powder, skiddoo
Australian informal go through, shoot through
British vulgar slang bugger off
archaic fly, levant
ANTONYMS
stay
2‘his wife ran off with one of the doctors’
SYNONYMS
run away with, elope with, go off with
3‘he ran off with the £1000 in the appeal fund’
SYNONYMS
steal, take, snatch, purloin, abscond with, help oneself to
pilfer, embezzle, misappropriate
informal walk away with, walk off with, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, liberate, filch, snaffle, snitch
British informal pinch, half-inch, whip, knock off, nobble
North American informal heist, glom
Australian informal snavel
West Indian informal tief
1‘the call ran on for two and a quarter hours’
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continue, go on, carry on, last, keep going, extend, stretch
2‘you're right, I do run on a bit at times, sorry’
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talk incessantly, talk a lot, rattle on, go on, chatter on, gabble on, ramble on
informal yak, gab, yackety-yak, yap, yabber, yatter
British informal rabbit on, witter on, natter on, chunter on, talk the hind leg off a donkey
Scottish, Irish slabber on
North American informal run off at the mouth
Australian, New Zealand informal mag
archaic twaddle, twattle, clack
3‘my thoughts ran too much on death’
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be preoccupied with, be concerned with, dwell on, focus on, be focused on, revolve around, centre around, be dominated by, be fixated with
‘his loose way of living ran up such big debts that he had to get out of town’
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accumulate, accrue, amass, collect, gather, stockpile, heap up, rack up, build up, scrape together, hoard, lay in, lay up, garner
British tot up
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run down, knock down, knock over, knock to the ground, hit, strike
1‘Sophie, would you just run off a list of all the outstanding accounts, please?’
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copy, photocopy, xerox, duplicate, print, photostat, mimeograph
make, produce, do
2‘run off some of the water that has been standing in the pipes’
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drain, drain off, bleed off, draw off, pump out
‘we ran across David when we were playing in LA’
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meet, meet by chance, come across, run into, chance on, stumble across, stumble on, happen on
informal bump into
archaic run against
1‘the original bill ran to £22,000’
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reach, extend to, be as high as, be as much as
amount to, add up to, total, come to, equal
2‘sorry, we can't run to champagne’
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afford, stretch to, manage, have money for
3‘he was running to fat’
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tend to, show a tendency to
become, get, grow
1‘the bathwater's running over’
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overflow, spill over, spill, brim over
rare overbrim
2‘the project ran wildly over budget’
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exceed, go over, go beyond, overshoot, overreach
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