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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : ruhn
Phonetic Transcription : rʌn



Definition of run up

Origin :
  • the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
  • The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
  • Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
  • Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
  • To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.
  • As in curtain raiser : noun short preliminary event
  • As in magnify : verb enlarge, intensify
  • As in raise : verb lift; build from the ground
  • As in raise : verb increase, augment
  • As in throw up : verb build quickly
  • As in charge : verb pay with credit card
  • As in jack : verb raise
  • As in add : verb adjoin, increase; make further comment
  • As in snowball : verb increase
  • As in upraise : verb erect
  • As in uprear : verb erect
  • As in enrich : verb improve, embellish
  • As in erect : verb build; establish
Example sentences :
  • Tell Mrs. Van Geist if she can't come down, I'll run up to her.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Look at the people you run up against in the course of a few hours.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • Maybe, when we come in this evening, I'll run up to his place, and you can talk it over with him.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • We can run up and down on deck with our mouths open and get enough for breakfast.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • Two men were prepared to run up on the fore-yard at the word.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Bibi had a black eye; some punch he had run up against the day before.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • Forthwith he began to run up the hill, dragging Miette with him.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • How would it do to run up a signal 'Small-pox aboard,' or somethin' like that?
  • Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • He just run up a storm sail and beat for harbor back of the barn.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The tackles were hooked on and she was run up to the davits with all her crew aboard.
  • Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Synonyms for run up

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