run - verb

1. To move swiftly on foot so that both feet leave the ground during each stride: scamper, scurry, sprint. See move.
2. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, nip, pelt, race, rip, rocket, rush, sail, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whizz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal bomb, hotfoot, scoot. Slang belt. North American barrel, highball. See move.
3. To leave hastily: bolt, clear out, get out. Informal get, hotfoot, skedaddle. Slang scram, vamoose. Chiefly North American Informal hightail. See approach.
4. To move or proceed away from a place. depart, exit, get away, get off, go, go away, leave, pull out, quit, retire, withdraw. Informal push off, shove off, take off. Slang split. See approach.
5. To be with as a companion. associate, consort, fraternize, hobnob, troop. Informal hang about or around, hang out. See near.
6. To look to when in need: apply, go, refer, repair, resort, turn. See used.
7. To complete a race or competition in a specified position: come in, finish, place. See be.
8. To move freely as a liquid: circulate, course, flow, stream. See move.
9. To come forth or emit in abundance: flow, gush, pour, rush, stream, surge, well. See move.
10. To change from a solid to a liquid: deliquesce, dissolve, flux, fuse, liquefy, melt, thaw. See solid.
11. To proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance: carry, extend, go, lead, reach, stretch. See reach.
12. To change or fluctuate within limits: extend, go, range, vary. See change.
13. To be performed: play, show. See performing arts.
14. To urge to move along: drive, herd. See move.
15. To look for and pursue (game) in order to capture or kill it: chase, drive, hunt, stalk. See seek.
16. To perform a function effectively: function, go, operate, take, work. See thrive.
17. To set or keep going: actuate, drive, impel, mobilize, move, propel. See move.
18. To control or direct the functioning of: manage, operate, use, work. See control.
19. To import or export secretly and illegally: bootleg, smuggle. See crimes. move.
20. To separate or pull apart by force: rend, rip, rive, split, tear. See assemble. help.
21. To cause to penetrate with force: dig, drive, plunge, ram, sink, stab, stick, thrust. See put in.
22. To control the course of (an activity): carry on, conduct, direct, manage, operate, steer. See over.
23. To have charge of (the affairs of others): administer, administrate, direct, govern, head, manage, superintend, supervise. See over.

run across - phrasal verb

1. To find or meet by chance: bump into, chance on or upon, come across, come on or upon, find, happen on or upon, light on or upon, run into, stumble on or upon, tumble on. Archaic alight on or upon. See meet.

run after - phrasal verb

1. To follow (another) with the intent of overtaking and capturing: chase, pursue. See seek.

run away - phrasal verb

1. To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation: abscond, break out, decamp, escape, flee, fly, get away. Slang scarper. US absquatulate. US Slang lam. See free.

run down - phrasal verb

1. To lose so much strength and power as to become ineffective or motionless: burn out, give out. Chiefly North American Slang poop(out). See tired.
2. To pursue and locate: hunt down, nose out, trace, track down. See get.
3. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant: belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, slight, talk down. See attack. show.
4. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of: abstract, epitomize, go over, recap, recapitulate, review, run through, summarize, sum up, synopsize. See thoughts.

run in - phrasal verb

1. To take into custody as a prisoner: apprehend, arrest, pick up, seize. Slang book, collar, nab, nick, pinch. North American Slang bust. See law.
2. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize: call, come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, pop in, see, stop(by or in), visit. See seek.

run into - phrasal verb

1. To find or meet by chance: bump into, chance on or upon, come across, come on or upon, find, happen on or upon, light on or upon, run across, stumble on or upon, tumble on. Archaic alight on or upon. See meet.
2. To come up against: confront, encounter, face, meet. See meet.
3. To come to in number or quantity: aggregate, amount, number, reach, total. See increase.

run on - phrasal verb

1. To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially: babble, blabber, chatter, chitchat, clack, jabber, jaw, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle(on), spiel. Informal go on. Informal chunter, gab, gas, natter, yack. See words.

run out - phrasal verb

1. To make or become no longer active or productive: deplete, desiccate, dry up, give out, play out. See continue.
2. To prove deficient or insufficient: fail, give out. See excess.
3. To become void, especially through passage of time or an omission: expire, lapse. See continue. law.

run through - phrasal verb

1. To use all of: consume, drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, spend, use up. Informal polish off. See increase.
2. To give a recapitulation of the salient facts of: abstract, epitomize, go over, recap, recapitulate, review, run down, summarize, sum up, synopsize. See thoughts.
3. To look through reading matter casually: browse, dip into, flip through, glance at or over or through, leaf(through), riffle(through), scan, skim, thumb(through). See investigate. words.

run up - phrasal verb

1. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal beef up. See increase.

run - noun

1. A trip in a motor vehicle: drive, ride, spin. Informal whirl. See move.
2. A small stream: branch, brook. Chiefly Regional beck. Scots burn. North American, Australian, & New Zealand creek. US Regional kill. See dry.
3. A hole made by tearing: rent, rip, tear. See help.
4. A number of things placed or occurring one after the other: chain, consecution, course, order, procession, progression, round, sequence, series, streak, string, succession, suite, train. See order.