Run down something

Run that by me again

Your tongue runs away with you

Run away with you

Run away from

Run away from

Toby ran away from home at the age of 14.

2. to try to avoid dealing with a problem or difficult situation

You can't just run away from your responsibilities.

3. to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them

They ran away together to get married.

run away with somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them - usually used to show disapproval

His wife has run away with another man.

if your feelings, ideas etc run away with you, they start to control how you behave

Don't let your imagination run away with you!

if your tongue runs away with you, you say something that you did not intend to say

4. run away with the idea/impression (that)

spoken t o think that something is true when it is not

Don't run away with the impression that he doesn't care.

5. informal to win a competition or sports game very easily

The Reds ran away with the championship.

run something by/past somebody phrasal verb

1. to tell someone something so that they can give you their opinion

Let me run some figures by you. I just wanted to run it past you and see what you thought.

spoken used to ask someone to repeat what they have just said because you did not completely understand it

run down phrasal verb

1. run somebody/something ↔ down

to drive into a person or animal and kill or injure them

Their daughter was run down by a car.

2. run somebody/something ↔ down

informal to criticize someone or something in a way that is unfair

There's a lot of good things about homeopathic treatment. I'm certainly not running it down.

3. if a clock, machine, battery etc runs down, it has no more power and stops working

4. to make a company, organization etc gradually reduce in size, especially in order to close it in the future, or to gradually reduce in size

run something ↔ down

Many smaller local hospitals are being run down.

The business had been running down for a long time.

5. if a supply of something runs down, or if you run it down, there gradually becomes less of it

Crude oil reserves are running down.

run something ↔ down

Electricity generating companies are running down stocks and cutting purchases.

to read a list of people or things

Let me just run down the list of people who've been invited.

7. run somebody/something down

to find someone or something after searching for a long time

I finally ran him down at his new office in Glendale.

ￚsee also rundown, run-down

run somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verb

1. to drive a new car slowly and carefully for a period of time so you do not damage its engine

2. old-fashioned if the police run a criminal in, they catch him or her

run into somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to start to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation

He ran into criticism after remarks he made in a television interview.

run into trouble/problems/difficulties

The business ran into financial difficulties almost immediately.

2. run into hundreds/thousands etc

to reach an amount of several hundred, several thousand etc

The cost of repairing the damage could run into millions. The list ran into hundreds of pages.

3. to hit someone or something with a vehicle

ￚsynonym c rash into

He ran into the back of another car.

4. informa l to meet someone by chance

Guess who I ran into in town today!

run off phrasal verb

1. to leave a place or person in a way that people disapprove of

Amy's husband had run off and left her with two children to bring up.

2. run something ↔ off

to quickly print several copies of something

I'll run off a few more copies before the meeting.

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