Definition of Run through

1. Verb. Apply thoroughly; think through. "We worked through an example"

Exact synonyms: Go Through, Work Through
Specialized synonyms: Whip Through
Generic synonyms: Work
Derivative terms: Run-through

2. Verb. Use up (resources or materials). "They run through more bread"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
Exact synonyms: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Use Up, Wipe Out
Specialized synonyms: Run Out, Drain, Indulge, Luxuriate, Burn, Burn Off, Burn Up, Spend, Exhaust, Play Out, Run Down, Sap, Tire
Generic synonyms: Drop, Expend, Spend
Related verbs: Occupy, Take, Use Up
Derivative terms: Consumable, Consumptive, Depletion, Depletion, Exhaustion

Definition of Run through

1. Verb. To go through by running ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) (idiomatic) To briefly summarise ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) To repeat something. ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic) To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money. ¹

5. Verb. (idiomatic) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system. ¹

6. Verb. (idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword. ¹

7. Verb. Of a waterway, to flow through an area. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Through

run rings round
run riot
run roughshod
run roughshod over
run scared
run short
run somebody ragged
run someone through
run something by
run something past
run something up the flagpole
run tee
run the clock down
run the gamut
run the gauntlet
run through (current term)
run time
run times
run to
run up
run up against
run up the score
run wild
run with
run with scissors
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
run year
run years
runabout
runabouts

Literary usage of Run through

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The pieces are now run through a continuous washing machine, which is provided with a plentiful supply of water. The machine, Fie. 4. ..."

2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises , and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1838)
"a wall, run through a troop, and to break that which is as a bow of steel spiritually, that otherwise cannot be got over, run through, nor broken. ..."

3. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Most obvious are certain changes in regard to the way in which animals are produced, and such changes run through a series of ..."

4. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"run through the M. of Europe (9 p.). T: M. Brewer, 11 : 473. Ward's Natural Science Establishment (2 p.). J. Leidy, 16 : 613. [Warren Museum] In A gigantic ..."

5. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XI run through the US blockading fleet — Out of our reckoning — Bermuda — Blockade-runners throw money into the street — Commodore Wilkes's famous ..."

6. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the by John Earle, Charles Plummer (1899)
"... and this scepticism is increased by the evidently artificial system of chronology which has been often noticed to run through the arrangement of thems, ..."

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