to run
- verb
- /rʌn/
- In addition, domestic dogs and cats traditionally are allowed to run freely in both urban and rural areas.
- run cattle
- run animals
And so we had to carve a kudu out of the herd and run them to exhaustion, and then we would club them to death.
- And so we had to carve a kudu out of the herd and run them to exhaustion, and then we would club them to death.
- I'm a great dog father until you put that decision on my hands, I will run this dog into the fucking ground until it's dust because I cannot kill it.
Examples
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My sheep have run a mile from the air.
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If you go into town, you can leave your car unlocked, and let the kids run around.
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Oh, got to let her run a little bit.
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We could be as free as the pigs who ran in the fields.
Academic text (2007) -
And next time, Miss Annie, you can run down the calves...
Fiction book (1998) -
Are you, uh, running cattle out of Faraway Downs, Mr. Fletcher?
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Don't let the zebras run.
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Mr. Morrison said we could let Patches run free, but only if he didn't bother the cows.
Fiction book (2002) -
The farmer decided to run the horses in the pasture so they could eat the fresh grass.
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To keep the animals healthy, they always run free in the field during the warmer months.
Synonyms
To play and move quickly in different directions while making noise
To move very quickly to reach a place
A short, very fast run over a small distance
To run at a steady slow speed for exercise
Make someone or something go away
To move faster than a walk but slower than a run, often used for animals
To move around quickly and energetically without a clear purpose
To run very quickly
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To feel very excited about something and then lose interest often
- Archaic
Act in a confused or uncontrolled way because of strong emotion
To support two opposite sides at the same time to please both
- Informal
Move quickly from place to place trying to solve many urgent problems
To support two opposite sides at the same time
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To damage something by using it too much or managing it badly
Compounds
A vehicle crash caused by a driver who leaves without helping or saying who they are
- Specialized
A run charged to the pitcher when the other team makes no fielding error or passed ball
- Specialized
The part of a plane's mission when it approaches a target and drops weapons on it
Many customers try to take out their money from a bank because they fear it will fail
- Specialized
Average number of runs a pitcher allows in nine innings, not counting runs after fielding mistakes
A sentence that joins more than one full idea without proper punctuation or connecting words
- Literature
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
- Specialized
A score given to a batter when their hit lets another player reach home
An early Civil War battle in Virginia where Confederate forces defeat Union troops
- Jargon
A run scored because a defensive player made a mistake, not from the batter's play
- Jargon
The normal action during a game not counting set pieces like free kicks or penalties
- Jargon
An attempt to move the ball by running around the end of the line in American football
A major early Civil War battle fought in July 1861 near Manassas, Virginia that the Confederate army won
- Specialized
A problem that happens while a program is running because of wrong data or bad instructions
- Specialized
A loose mix of small stones and sand taken from a gravel pit and used as is
- Jargon
A set of newspaper or magazine copies with some pages changed for different areas
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Run meaning to let animals graze or move comes from making them move across the land, so to run cattle is to let them move and feed over a field.