run
/ɹʌn/ verb A1- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. · Run, and you might still catch the train!
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly. · I have been running all over the building looking for him.· Sorry, I've got to run; my house is on fire!
- To cover (a course or a distance) by running. · I can run a mile, but I can't run the cross-country course.
- To complete a running course or event in (a given time). · I was hoping to make the team, but I didn't run the qualifying time.
- To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc. · The shuttle runs back and forth on these rollers.· As its name suggests, the monorail runs on a single rail.
- To cause to move quickly or lightly. · Every day I run my dog across the field and back.· I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.
- To compete in a race. · The horse will run in the Preakness next year.· I'm not ready to run a marathon.
- To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace. · Could you run me over to the store?· Please run this report upstairs to director's office.
Plural run · He/she/it runs · Past ran · Past participle run · -ing form running
Verb forms
- Base form
- run
- He/she/it
- runs
- Past
- ran
- Past participle
- run
- -ing form
- running
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- run about Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, a...
- run across To cross by running.
- run after To follow quickly, often in an effort to catch or catch u...
- run along To leave; to make one's way somewhere else.
- run around To be very busy doing many different things.
- run away To flee by running.
- run back To take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to th...
- run by To inform briefly of the main points of; to bring an idea...
- run down To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or ...
- run in To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
- run into To enter by running.
- run off To flee or depart quickly.
From the library
Toto ran over to the trees and began to bark at the birds sitting there.
Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.
Other matches
- run Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly u... A1
- run In a liquid state C2
- run about Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- run across To cross by running.
- run after To follow quickly, often in an effort to catch ...
- run along To leave
- run around To be very busy doing many different things.
- run away To flee by running.
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