run through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs through
form: running through
form: ran through
form: run through
Senses: examples: text: Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
text: The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...
ref: 2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145:
synonyms: word: run over
word: sum up
word: abridge
word: abstract
word: capsule
word: concise
word: docket
word: encapsulate
word: epitomize
word: gist
word: nutshell
word: outline
word: précis
word: recapitulate
word: recap
word: redact
word: run over
word: run through
word: summarize
word: sum up
word: sum
word: synopsize
word: tl;dr
word: wrap up
glosses: To summarise briefly.
examples: text: ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.
ref: 2009, Jorge S. Olson with Carlos Lopez, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115:
glosses: To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry
examples: text: We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.
synonyms: reiterate
run back
glosses: To repeat something.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: burn through, get through
text: I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
synonyms: eat up
expend
glosses: To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.
examples: text: to run through a book
synonyms: skim through
slubber
glosses: To go through hastily.
examples: text: Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
text: The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
ref: 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times:
synonyms: permeate
riddle
glosses: To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
examples: text: Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
text: D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.
ref: 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15:
synonyms: word: spear
word: transpierce
word: empierce
word: fix
word: impale
word: pierce
word: prick
word: puncture
word: run through
word: stake
word: stick
word: transfix
word: transpierce
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
examples: text: “There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find^([sic]) himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]
ref: 2021 April 19, Trey R. Barker, Jonathan Brown, S.A. Cosby, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Gar Anthony Haywood, Penny Mickelbury, William Dylan Powell, Kimberly B. Richardson, Stacy Woodson, Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices, Down & Out Books:
synonyms: word: plough
word: service
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To fuck.
examples: text: You just ran through a stop sign.
glosses: To continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.
examples: text: The Seine river runs through Paris.
glosses: Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
examples: text: This train runs through the county.
glosses: To have a route that goes through an area; to continue through an area; to complete a route.
raw_tags: of a train
glosses: To continue through territory owned by another company without being exchanged for a different train.
raw_tags: of a train
examples: text: The cardamom runs through the cake.
glosses: To be present and intense.
raw_tags: of a flavor or ingredient
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.