Antonyms for run up

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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