Synonyms for running
| Grammar : Adj, adv, noun |
| Spell : ruhn-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌn ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for running Other synonyms for the word running
- alive
- consecutively
- continuously
- cursive
- direction
- dynamic
- easy
- effortless
- executing
- fluent
- going
- handling
- in action
- in operation
- in succession
- incessant
- intendance
- leadership
- live
- maintenance
- moving
- night and day
- operation
- operative
- organization
- oversight
- performance
- perpetual
- proceeding
- producing
- regulation
- smooth
- successively
- superintendency
- supervision
- together
- unbroken
- unceasing
- unintermittedly
- uninterrupted
- uninterruptedly
Définition of running
Origin :- Old English ærning, verbal noun from run (v.); to be in (or out) of the running "among" (or "not among") "the lead competitors in a race" (1863) is a metaphor from horse racing, where make the running "set the pace" is recorded from 1837. Running shoe is from 1884.
- adj continuous, flowing, operating
- adv continually
- noun management of organization
- Many words of the talkative German were running in his mind from the night before.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I trust he is not running after the new doctrine of the hawkers and pedlars.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Running at a low level, the waters of that stream were deplorably dirty.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- He had himself been obliged to bail out three times, running in from the reef.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- There were attendants, running Turks, and guards before to clear the way.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- But as for running him into the ground, they had lost their appetite for such fighting.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Running the car into the shadow of a ruined house, I try to sleep.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- She stopped the running and meditated with a steady, hard deliberation.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Running to the door she threw it open and listened intently.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- "Ask Allister what fighting had to do with the running of things," said Andrew calmly.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
Antonyms for running
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