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run through en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To repeat something.
    • We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To repeat something. ▸ To summarise briefly.
    • The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ... 2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145:
    • Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To go through hastily.
    • to run through a book
  4. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To go through hastily. ▸ To quickly inform, train or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry.
    • ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling. 2009, Jorge S. Olson with Carlos Lopez, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115:
  5. (idiomatic, transitive) To go through hastily. ▸ To get something approved quickly.
    • The plans for the new building were rushed through.
  6. (idiomatic, transitive) To go through hastily. ▸ To use (something, often money) completely, in a short space of time.
    • Near-synonyms: burn through, get through
    • Tuchel ran through his options in an attempt to crack the Ghana code, with Saka replacing the disappointing Anthony Gordon, and the Arsenal winger almost fashioned the breakthrough when he forced a diving stop from keeper Asare. 2026 June 23, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Ghana”, in BBC:
    • I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
  7. (idiomatic, transitive) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
    • 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. 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times:
    • Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
  8. (idiomatic, of a flavor or ingredient, transitive) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system. ▸ To be present and intense.
    • The cardamom runs through the cake.
  9. (idiomatic, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To impale (a person) with a blade, usually a sword.
    • Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
    • D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down. 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15:
  10. (figuratively, slang, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To have sex with (someone).
    • “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,” […] 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:
  11. (idiomatic, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.
    • You just ran through a stop sign.
  12. (of a waterway, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To flow through an area.
    • The Seine river runs through Paris.
  13. (intransitive, of a train, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To have a route that goes through an area; to continue through an area; to complete a route.
    • This train runs through the county.
  14. (of a train, transitive) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To continue through territory owned by another company without being exchanged for a different train.
  15. (historical) Senses as to continuing all the way through something ▸ To produce steel by continuing to pump molten iron into a mould after it is full.
  16. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
    • He ran through the park to get the other side.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ran through Tense=Past lexicographic
running through Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
run through Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
runs through Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

splash · bauf · rut · do · service · recap · ream · beep · Informal and slang terms · pump · coit · skim through · screw · frig · transfix · smash · shiv · permeate · fix · swive · seduce · reiterate · chib · hit · empierce · kebab · run back · sum up · get into someone's pants · make · roger · skim through · riddle · pork · take · root · go with · get over on · boff · nail · go in unto · gride · run through · abridge · juke · season · have · bone · stab · dight · tup · run through · impale · fill · thrust · know someone in the biblical sense · get through · see to · be with · capsule · slubber · sum · puncture · fuck · coitize · run through · permeate · knifecrime · burn through · tl;dr · get up in · gist · chive · ball · slay · service · slubber · give someone the time · shelve · plough · concise · jump · pierce · bang · fuck · doink · frick · knob · plough · lie by · slip it to · lancinate · enjoy · foin · shank · bed · run over · run through · penetrate · expletive deleted · spear · Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with" · knock off · stick · stick · jab · dick · stog · spear · expend · sard · bonk · summarize · lie with · go to bed with · stake · skim through · knock · stob · plug · occupy · poke · abstract · job · yerk · enthrill · love · eff · nutshell · slubber · docket · stallionize · hump · synopsize · eat up · précis · frack · slubber · lay · mount · wap · shag · drill · pink · boink · have one's way with · speet · epitomize · prig · wrap up · schlong · chef · pigstick · transpierce · feague · dig out · outline · reiterate · encapsulate · jump someone's bones · have one's wicked way with · shaft · recapitulate · know · transpierce · gore · ching · prick · poach · run over · redact · sleep with · jape · skim through · ravage · boom-boom · sum up · love up · diddle · give someone one · frak · smush · pound · run back · tap · riddle · rock · Formal terms

Translations (24)

de aufbrauchen (use completely, in a short space of time) · de durchdringen (pervade, of a quality that is characteristic) · de durchströmen (flow through a pipe, tube, blood vessel) · de durchziehen (pervade, of a quality that is characteristic) · de durchgehen (summarise briefly) · fr parcourir (go through hastily) · es recorrer (go through hastily) · grc πείρω (impale a person) · de durchbringen (use completely, in a short space of time) · de durchsetzen (pervade, of a quality that is characteristic) · de durch etwas hetzen (go through hastily) · la transigō (impale a person) · es empalar (impale a person) · io parkurar (go through hastily) · es resumir (summarise briefly) · de aufzehren (use completely, in a short space of time) · fr embrocher (impale a person) · de durchbohren (impale a person) · de durchfließen (flow through an area) · de durch etwas führen (inform or educate someone) · fr arroser (flow through an area) · de durchnehmen (repeat something) · es repasar (go through hastily) · de durch etwas rennen (go through hastily)