run through

run through
verb
1. apply thoroughly; think through (Freq. 4)
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We worked through an example

• Syn: ↑work through, ↑go through
• Derivationally related forms: ↑run-through
• Hypernyms: ↑work
• Hyponyms: ↑whip through
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

2. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 1)
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this car consumes a lot of gas

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We exhausted our savings

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They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

• Syn:
↑consume, ↑eat up, ↑use up, ↑eat, ↑deplete, ↑exhaust, ↑wipe out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exhaustion (for: ↑exhaust), ↑depletion (for: ↑deplete), ↑consumptive (for: ↑consume), ↑consumable (for: ↑consume)
• Hypernyms: ↑spend, ↑expend, ↑drop
• Hyponyms:
↑run out, ↑drain, ↑indulge, ↑luxuriate, ↑burn off, ↑burn, ↑burn up, ↑spend, ↑run down, ↑exhaust, ↑play out, ↑sap, ↑tire
• Verb Group: ↑take, ↑occupy, ↑use up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑eat)
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They run through more bread

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1) be present in every part of; pervade

a sense of personal loss runs through many of his lyrics

2) use or spend recklessly or rapidly

her husband had long since run through her money

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run through [phrasal verb]
1 run through (something)
1 a : to spend or use up (something) quickly : ↑squander

He ran through his winnings in a short time.

1 b run through (something) : to read, repeat, or practice (something) quickly

Let's run through our lines one more time.

He quickly ran through the dance routine.

— see also ↑run-through
1 c : to occur repeatedly in (something) or throughout (something)

The song has been running through my head all morning.

Thoughts and memories of home kept running through his mind.

A note of despair runs through the narrative.

2 run (something) through (something) : to enter (information) into (a computer) for processing

She ran his name through the police computer to see if he had any previous arrests.

He ran the data through.

3 run (someone) through literary : to push a sword through (someone)

He ran him through with his sword.

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Main Entry: ↑run

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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