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run to earth en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To find someone or something after a long and difficult search.
We’ve been trying to contact that witness for ten days, but we still haven’t run him to earth.
He went off to Rye, ran Ottershaw to earth in the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.
1968, Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax, page 155:
Forms
Coordinates
run in
Synonyms
run down · run to ground