dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/run_MWT.json
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{
"run (over)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"perfect",
"refine",
"point (for)",
"prepare (for)",
"train (with)",
"drill",
"repeat",
"work (at or on)",
"review",
"study"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run down":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a rundown of the suspect's lengthy police record"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"related":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"roundup",
"run-through",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
]
},
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a run-down old house that really should be torn down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
]
},
"temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body":{
"antonyms":[
"hale",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
"examples":[
"I'm afraid I'll be staying home today as I'm feeling run-down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"conditioned",
"fit",
"well-conditioned",
"cured",
"better",
"convalescing",
"improved",
"mending",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"rehabilitated",
"hardy",
"hearty",
"lusty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"tough",
"blooming",
"bouncing",
"chipper",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"symptomatic",
"cruddy",
"lousy",
"seedy",
"sickish",
"nauseated",
"nauseous",
"qualmish",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"airsick",
"carsick",
"seasick",
"dizzy",
"light-headed",
"shaky",
"woozy",
"achy",
"feverish",
"diseased",
"disordered",
"decrepit",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"invalid",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakly",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"hypochondriac",
"hypochondriacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"ailing",
"bad",
"down",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"poorly",
"punk",
"sick",
"sickened",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
],
"examples":[
"finally ran down the answer after hours of research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"related":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
],
"examples":[
"constantly running down the city's cultural life won't do anything to improve it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"countenance",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize"
],
"related":[
"discommend",
"abuse",
"scold",
"disapprove (of)",
"dislike",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"asperse",
"defame",
"malign",
"rip",
"slander",
"slur",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"discredit",
"disgrace"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"vilipend",
"write off"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"encounter",
"hassle",
"scrape",
"skirmish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argument",
"fight",
"quarrel",
"row",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"battle",
"brawl",
"fray",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-up":{
"as in countdown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"countdown",
"curtain-raiser",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preliminary",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog",
"warm-up",
"lead-in",
"kickoff",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in jump , spike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"spike",
"accession",
"appendix",
"continuation",
"extension",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"complement",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"expansion",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"more",
"plus",
"proliferation",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"supplement",
"uptick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"depletion",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down",
"deduction",
"subtraction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rundlet":{
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cistern",
"tub",
"vat",
"can",
"drum"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"butt",
"cask",
"firkin",
"hogshead",
"keg",
"kilderkin",
"pipe",
"puncheon",
"tun"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runners":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"a drug runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootleggers",
"contrabandists",
"couriers",
"smugglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyotes",
"coyote",
"gunrunners",
"mules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"sent a runner to tell them that all was ready for the feast"
],
"synonyms":[
"couriers",
"expresses",
"go-betweens",
"messengers",
"pages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives",
"bearers",
"carriers",
"deliverymen",
"letter carriers",
"mail carriers",
"mailmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running down":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
],
"examples":[
"finally ran down the answer after hours of research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"related":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
],
"examples":[
"constantly running down the city's cultural life won't do anything to improve it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"related":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending",
"writing off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs":{
"to go at a pace faster than a walk":{
"examples":[
"we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"dashes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"scampers",
"sprints",
"trips",
"trots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounds",
"canters",
"leaps",
"lopes",
"shags",
"skips",
"springs",
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"courses",
"foots (it)",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"hoofs (it)",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"legs (it)",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms",
"nips",
"patters",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"steps (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"trudges",
"hobbles",
"limps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs away",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the road runs along the river for a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"extends",
"goes",
"heads",
"leads",
"lies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"cuts",
"passes",
"courses",
"follows",
"spans",
"traverses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"goes",
"ranges",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternates",
"fluctuates",
"moves",
"shifts",
"changes",
"mutates",
"extends",
"reaches",
"stretches",
"sweeps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water running down the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"flows",
"pours",
"rolls",
"streams"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arises",
"disembogues",
"effuses",
"emanates",
"issues",
"springs",
"courses",
"races",
"rushes",
"fountains",
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"deluges",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overruns",
"swamps",
"cascades",
"dribbles",
"drips",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"sheets",
"trickles",
"flushes",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"hardens",
"sets"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs up"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"run and get the nurse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclines",
"leans",
"tends",
"trends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"goes",
"gravitates",
"indicates",
"points",
"suggests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"shies (from or away from)",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"herds",
"punches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherds",
"wrangles",
"eggs",
"exhorts",
"flogs",
"goads",
"hounds",
"presses",
"pricks",
"prods",
"prompts",
"scourges",
"spurs",
"whips"
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"examples":[
"I know how to run that machine"
],
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"handles",
"operates",
"works"
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"uses",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"plies",
"wields",
"commands",
"controls",
"directs",
"drives",
"guides",
"pilots",
"steers"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children"
],
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"comes",
"gets",
"goes",
"grows",
"turns",
"waxes"
],
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"changes",
"metamorphoses",
"modifies",
"mutates",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes"
],
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"abides",
"continues",
"is",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"her makeup started to run when she got in the pool"
],
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"deliquesces",
"fluxes",
"fuses",
"liquefies",
"liquifies",
"melts",
"thaws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founds",
"gutters",
"tries",
"dissolves",
"renders",
"softens",
"thins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"jellies",
"jells",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardens",
"sets",
"solidifies"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"learning to run the family business"
],
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"administers",
"administrates",
"carries on",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directs",
"governs",
"guides",
"handles",
"keeps",
"manages",
"operates",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"presides (over)",
"regulates",
"stewards",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"tends"
],
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"cares (for)",
"minds",
"watches",
"leads",
"pilots",
"steers",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"micromanages",
"stage-manages",
"codirects",
"comanages"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"in olden days mills were run by flowing water"
],
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"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"starts",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicks over",
"turns over",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges",
"arouses",
"excites",
"jump-starts",
"kick-starts",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"ignites",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"stirs up",
"accelerates",
"catalyzes",
"speeds (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks",
"stops",
"decelerates",
"represses",
"slows",
"stunts",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"cuts",
"cuts out",
"deactivates",
"kills",
"shuts off",
"turns off"
]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars"
],
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"brings",
"costs",
"fetches",
"goes (for)",
"sells (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lists (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"commands",
"exacts",
"asks",
"demands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"he's been running with a bad crowd lately"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"chums",
"companies",
"consociates",
"consorts",
"fraternizes",
"hangs (around or out)",
"hobnobs",
"hooks up",
"messes around",
"pals (around)",
"sorts",
"travels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliates",
"allies",
"attaches",
"bands",
"bonds",
"clubs",
"collaborates",
"colludes",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"connects",
"cooperates",
"couples",
"gangs",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"groups",
"interrelates",
"joins",
"knots",
"leagues",
"links",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"rallies",
"relates",
"sides",
"socializes",
"teams",
"ties",
"weds",
"befriends",
"friends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"cold-shoulders",
"shuns",
"snubs",
"alienates",
"estranges",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)",
"disjoins",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divorces",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"dogs",
"follows",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"shadows",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools":{
"examples":[
"with weekend guests in the house, it was no time to get the runs"
],
"synonyms":[
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"flux",
"Montezuma's revenge",
"trots",
"turista"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"shigellosis",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"runs amok":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The mayor acknowledged the group's right to march, but warned that they would not be allowed to run amok ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"appeases",
"pacifies",
"soothes",
"checks",
"chokes (back)",
"collects",
"composes",
"contains",
"curbs",
"pockets",
"reins",
"represses",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"moderates",
"tempers",
"tones (down)",
"eases",
"lets up",
"relaxes",
"calms",
"cools",
"hushes",
"quells",
"quiets",
"settles",
"stills"
],
"related":[
"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)",
"blusters",
"carries on",
"fulminates",
"rampages",
"rants",
"raves",
"takes on",
"burns",
"foams",
"seethes",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews"
],
"synonyms":[
"bristles",
"fumes",
"rages",
"storms"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs rings around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"trumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"dusts",
"flattens",
"pastes",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"skunks",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"tromps",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"whomps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"upsets",
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"dispatches",
"hurdles",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"throws",
"triumphs (over)",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"crushes",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"upends",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"breaks",
"destroys",
"does in",
"finishes",
"sinks",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runty":{
"as in stunted , scrubby":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"runtish",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"dwarf",
"toy",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runway":{
"as in airstrip , landing strip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airstrip",
"landing field",
"landing strip",
"air base",
"air park",
"helipad",
"heliport",
"jetport",
"launchpad",
"pad",
"aerodrome",
"airdrome",
"airfield",
"airport",
"field"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in road , street":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lane",
"pass",
"passage",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"run",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"cutoff",
"shortcut",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"bypath",
"byroad",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"passageway",
"walkway",
"towpath",
"bridle path",
"footpath",
"path",
"pathway",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runways":{
"as in airstrips , landing strips":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in roads , streets":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run-of-the-mill":{
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"examples":[
"just another run-of-the-mill suburb with its shopping malls and fast-food restaurants"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"everyday",
"garden-variety",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"standard",
"standard-issue",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curious",
"funny",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"aberrant",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"irregular",
"untypical",
"rare",
"recherch\u00e9",
"scarce",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"phenomenal",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"Kafkaesque",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"nonconformist",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"freak",
"freakish",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"novel",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"signal",
"striking",
"unexampled",
"unprecedented",
"singular",
"unique",
"unparalleled"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
]
},
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"his latest offering is rather run-of-the-mill for this usually excellent novelist"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"running off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"seizing",
"shanghaiing",
"waylaying",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running off":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"booting (out)",
"bouncing",
"casting out",
"chasing",
"dismissing",
"drumming (out)",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"extruding",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"outing",
"routing",
"throwing out",
"turfing (out)",
"turning out"
],
"related":[
"deforcing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"dispossessing",
"evicting",
"exiling",
"expatriating",
"ostracizing",
"reading out",
"shutting out",
"axing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"defenestrating",
"discharging",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconding",
"breaking out (of)",
"clearing out",
"escaping",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"running away"
],
"related":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading",
"losing",
"shunning",
"decamping",
"departing",
"eloping",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"moving",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"bringing off",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"redeeming",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"coming back",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"skedaddling"
],
"related":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running away":{
"as in exit , departure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"departure",
"egress",
"exit",
"exiting",
"exodus",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"farewell",
"leave-taking",
"parting",
"separation",
"decamping",
"decampment",
"flight",
"withdrawal",
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"forsaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reunion",
"arrival",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"welcome",
"gathering",
"joining",
"meeting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconding",
"breaking out (of)",
"clearing out",
"escaping",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"running off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading",
"losing",
"shunning",
"decamping",
"departing",
"eloping",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"moving",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"bringing off",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"redeeming",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"coming back",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"runlet":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"weather forecasters warned that the heavy rains might cause the area's runlets to overflow"
],
"synonyms":[
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runnel",
"streamlet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"runoff",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running":{
"being in effective operation":{
"examples":[
"the car has been running for almost an entire day"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"live",
"living",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"operable",
"usable",
"useable",
"viable",
"workable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"useful",
"yielding",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deactivated",
"decommissioned",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"useless",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"arrested",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"idle",
"inert",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"nonproductive",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"stagnating",
"unproductive",
"vegetating"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"dead",
"inactive",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"nonactivated",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating",
"nonoperational",
"nonoperative"
]
},
"going on and on without any interruptions":{
"examples":[
"a running struggle just to make ends meet"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"continual",
"continued",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"nonstop",
"perpetual",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"interminable",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indestructible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermittent",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"antonyms":[
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
]
},
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
"examples":[
"left the running of the corporation to his subordinates"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"conduct",
"control",
"direction",
"governance",
"government",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"in succession without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"he won the championship five times running"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutively",
"hand running",
"sequentially",
"seriatim",
"successionally",
"successively",
"together"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serially",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"repeatedly",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"subsequently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discontinuously",
"intermittently",
"interruptedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go at a pace faster than a walk":{
"examples":[
"we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"dashing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"scampering",
"sprinting",
"tripping",
"trotting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"cantering",
"leaping",
"loping",
"shagging",
"skipping",
"springing",
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"coursing",
"footing (it)",
"haring",
"hastening",
"hoofing (it)",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"legging (it)",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming",
"nipping",
"pattering",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"stepping (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"trudging",
"hobbling",
"limping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the road runs along the river for a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"extending",
"going",
"heading",
"leading",
"lying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossing",
"cutting",
"passing",
"coursing",
"following",
"spanning",
"traversing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"going",
"ranging",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternating",
"fluctuating",
"moving",
"shifting",
"changing",
"mutating",
"extending",
"reaching",
"stretching",
"sweeping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water running down the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"streaming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arising",
"disemboguing",
"effusing",
"emanating",
"issuing",
"springing",
"coursing",
"racing",
"rushing",
"fountaining",
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overrunning",
"swamping",
"cascading",
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"sheeting",
"trickling",
"flushing",
"washing out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"hardening",
"setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"backing up"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"run and get the nurse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclining",
"leaning",
"tending",
"trending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"going",
"gravitating",
"indicating",
"pointing",
"suggesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"shunning",
"shying (from or away from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"driving",
"herding",
"punching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherding",
"wrangling",
"egging",
"exhorting",
"flogging",
"goading",
"hounding",
"pressing",
"pricking",
"prodding",
"prompting",
"scourging",
"spurring",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to control the mechanical operation of":{
"examples":[
"I know how to run that machine"
],
"synonyms":[
"handling",
"operating",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"using",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"plying",
"wielding",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"directing",
"driving",
"guiding",
"piloting",
"steering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children"
],
"synonyms":[
"becoming",
"coming",
"getting",
"going",
"growing",
"turning",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"metamorphosing",
"modifying",
"mutating",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"being",
"continuing",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"her makeup started to run when she got in the pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquescing",
"fluxing",
"fusing",
"liquefying",
"liquifying",
"melting",
"thawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founding",
"guttering",
"trying",
"dissolving",
"rendering",
"softening",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"jelling",
"jellying",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardening",
"setting",
"solidifying"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"learning to run the family business"
],
"synonyms":[
"administering",
"administrating",
"carrying on",
"conducting",
"controlling",
"directing",
"governing",
"guiding",
"handling",
"keeping",
"managing",
"operating",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"stewarding",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"watching",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"micromanaging",
"stage-managing",
"codirecting",
"co-directing",
"comanaging",
"co-managing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"in olden days mills were run by flowing water"
],
"synonyms":[
"activating",
"actuating",
"cranking (up)",
"driving",
"moving",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"starting",
"touching off",
"triggering",
"turning on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicking over",
"turning over",
"charging",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"firing",
"fueling",
"fuelling",
"generating",
"powering",
"pushing",
"discharging",
"launching",
"releasing",
"switching",
"tripping",
"reactivating",
"recharging",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"jump-starting",
"kick-starting",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing",
"igniting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"provoking",
"quickening",
"stirring up",
"accelerating",
"catalyzing",
"speeding (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"braking",
"checking",
"cutting off",
"drawing up",
"halting",
"jamming",
"stalling",
"sticking",
"stopping",
"decelerating",
"repressing",
"slowing",
"stunting",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"cutting",
"cutting out",
"deactivating",
"killing",
"shutting off",
"turning off"
]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing",
"costing",
"fetching",
"going (for)",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"he's been running with a bad crowd lately"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run off":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"throw out",
"turf (out)",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"deport",
"displace",
"dispossess",
"evict",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"ostracize",
"read out",
"shut out",
"ax",
"axe",
"can",
"cashier",
"defenestrate",
"discharge",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take",
"take in",
"welcome",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run away"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in arroyo , freshet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-throughs":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"could you give me a quick run-through of what the referendum question is all about?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"roundups",
"rundowns",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"shortenings",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rundlets":{
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"examples":[
"the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"butts",
"casks",
"firkins",
"hogsheads",
"kegs",
"kilderkins",
"pipes",
"puncheons",
"tuns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cisterns",
"tubs",
"vats",
"cans",
"drums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runnels":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent"
],
"synonyms":[
"becks",
"bourns",
"bournes",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"burns",
"creeks",
"gills",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runlets",
"runs",
"streamlets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyos",
"billabongs",
"freshes",
"freshets",
"runoffs",
"bayous",
"coulees",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"streams",
"washes",
"canals",
"channels",
"cutoffs",
"cuts",
"guts",
"kills",
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"races",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"affluents",
"branches",
"confluents",
"distributaries",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs on":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbles",
"blabs",
"cackles",
"chaffers",
"chats",
"chatters",
"chins",
"converses",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gases",
"gasses",
"jabbers",
"jaws",
"kibitzes",
"kibbitzes",
"natters",
"palavers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"raps",
"rattles",
"schmoozes",
"shmoozes",
"talks",
"twitters",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossips",
"tattles",
"descants",
"discusses",
"expatiates",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"yammers",
"yaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"allow the savings account to run on for now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"bides",
"continues",
"endures",
"holds on",
"holds up",
"keeps up",
"lasts",
"perdures",
"persists",
"remains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingers",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"carries through",
"prevails",
"survives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"dies (down)",
"ebbs",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"desists",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up"
]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"goes on",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running past":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extending",
"giving",
"offering",
"proffering",
"tendering",
"trotting out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"posing",
"proposing",
"holding out",
"giving in",
"submitting",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"accrediting",
"approbating",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"finalizing",
"formalizing",
"homologating",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"ratifying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"declining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"vetoing",
"rebuffing",
"rebutting",
"refusing",
"spurning",
"retracting",
"withdrawing",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running rings around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"run upon":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"The boy ran upon a small house while exploring the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"We ran upon our neighbor in the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runts":{
"a living thing much smaller than others of its kind":{
"examples":[
"one kitten was definitely the runt , weighing only six ounces at birth"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"scrubs",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"Tom Thumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nubbins",
"miniatures",
"minis",
"bantams",
"homunculi",
"hop-o'-my-thumbs",
"manikins",
"mannikins",
"half-pints"
],
"near antonyms":[
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"antonyms":[
"behemoths",
"colossi",
"giants",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"monsters",
"titans"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"pops (in)",
"runs (over)",
"steps in",
"stops (by or in)",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barges (in)",
"looks up",
"sees",
"bops (into)",
"happens (by)",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"resorts (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running mate":{
"a person frequently seen in the company of another":{
"examples":[
"inseparable running mates who first met when they were in elementary school"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"cohort",
"companion",
"compatriot",
"compeer",
"comrade",
"crony",
"fellow",
"hobnobber",
"mate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colleague",
"coworker",
"equal",
"peer",
"workmate",
"accomplice",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"half",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"confidant",
"familiar",
"friend",
"hearty",
"intimate",
"pal",
"countryman",
"classmate",
"housemate",
"messmate",
"playfellow",
"playmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"schoolmate",
"shipmate",
"teammate",
"attendant",
"escort",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"sinking",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running (over)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running in",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by or in)",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barging (in)",
"looking up",
"seeing",
"bopping (into)",
"happening (by)",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercising",
"practicing",
"practising",
"rehearsing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grooving",
"perfecting",
"refining",
"pointing (for)",
"preparing (for)",
"training (with)",
"drilling",
"repeating",
"working (at or on)",
"reviewing",
"studying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rung":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined"
],
"synonyms":[
"degree",
"echelon",
"footing",
"level",
"place",
"position",
"rank",
"ranking",
"reach(es)",
"situation",
"standing",
"station",
"status",
"stratum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"order",
"walk",
"capacity",
"function",
"rating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"sap",
"shillelagh",
"shillalah",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates":{
"examples":[
"I didn't hear the doorbell ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonged",
"chimed",
"knelled",
"pealed",
"tolled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chinked",
"clanged",
"clanked",
"clashed",
"clinked",
"ding-donged",
"dinged",
"gonged",
"jangled",
"jingled",
"pinged",
"plinked",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"tanged",
"tingled",
"tinkled",
"echoed",
"resonated",
"resounded",
"reverberated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"goes on",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles",
"runs on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs out":{
"as in throws out , kicks out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casts out",
"dismisses",
"ejects",
"eliminates",
"evicts",
"excludes",
"expels",
"expulses",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"throws out",
"banishes",
"deports",
"displaces",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"relegates",
"transports",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"dispossesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizes",
"repatriates",
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes in",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runabout":{
"as in sedan , cruiser":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cabin cruiser",
"cruiser",
"hydrofoil",
"motor sailer",
"sedan",
"sportfisherman",
"motorboat",
"powerboat",
"speedboat",
"stinkpot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run to seed":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"That old, rusted car has gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"tumbledown",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophied",
"crumbled",
"decayed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"devolved",
"ebbed",
"regressed",
"retrograded",
"rotted",
"sunk",
"worsened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"waned",
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"dilapidated",
"disintegrated",
"moldered",
"putrefied",
"soured",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"debilitated",
"undermined",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fallen",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"run down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettered",
"upgraded",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"strengthened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"marched",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"improved",
"meliorated"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grown",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running against":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"It surprised her that she ran against some resistance when she presented her plan for the company."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run the risk of":{
"to take a chance on":{
"examples":[
"If you don't use your turn signal when driving, you run the risk of causing an accident."
],
"synonyms":[
"adventure",
"chance",
"gamble (on)",
"hazard",
"risk",
"tempt",
"venture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"challenge",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave",
"compromise",
"endanger",
"imperil",
"jeopardize",
"menace",
"expose",
"subject",
"bet (on)",
"wager"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runtish":{
"as in stunted , scrubby":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"dwarf",
"toy",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runs out on":{
"as in walks out on , goes back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goes back on",
"jumps ship",
"walks out on",
"defects (from)",
"deserts",
"rats (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"clings (to)",
"sticks (to or with)",
"cherishes",
"cultivates",
"fosters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running dogs":{
"as in slaves , lackeys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries",
"yes-men",
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"fawners",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lickspittles",
"suck-ups",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runny":{
"having an overly soft liquid consistency":{
"examples":[
"runny scrambled eggs"
],
"synonyms":[
"soupy",
"watery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluent",
"fluid",
"liquefied",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"thin",
"thinned",
"watered-down",
"weak",
"weakened",
"sloshy",
"slushy",
"soggy",
"waterlogged",
"wet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ropy",
"ropey",
"syrupy",
"viscid",
"viscous",
"creamy",
"heavy",
"thick",
"thickened",
"thickish",
"gelatinous",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"sticky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"running through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"fiddling away",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"losing",
"misspending",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"trifling (away)",
"wasting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurging",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"overspending",
"shooting",
"indulging",
"overindulging",
"disbursing",
"expending",
"laying out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizing",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outclass",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outgun",
"outmatch",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"tower (over)",
"transcend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-up",
"outpace",
"outrace",
"outrun",
"overpass",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"outcompete",
"outperform",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"shame",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"overbear",
"overshadow",
"trump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running after":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"She ran after the puppy that escaped from the yard."
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"running",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"pops (in)",
"runs (over)",
"steps in",
"stops (by or in)",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barges (in)",
"looks up",
"sees",
"bops (into)",
"happens (by)",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"resorts (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running hands":{
"as in prints , cursives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backhands",
"copperplates",
"cursives",
"prints",
"hands",
"handwritings",
"penmanships",
"scripts",
"cacographies",
"hen scratches",
"hen tracks",
"scratches",
"scrawls",
"scribbles",
"autographs",
"John Hancocks",
"John Henrys",
"signatures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run on":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"allow the savings account to run on for now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"bide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hold on",
"hold up",
"keep up",
"last",
"perdure",
"persist",
"remain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"linger",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"carry through",
"prevail",
"survive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"die (down)",
"ebb",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"desist",
"die",
"discontinue",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up"
]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on"
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"go on",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"burn",
"consume",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"draw down",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augment",
"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"renew",
"replace"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running upon":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"The boy ran upon a small house while exploring the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"We ran upon our neighbor in the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rundowns":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"a rundown of the suspect's lengthy police record"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"roundups",
"run-throughs",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"shortenings",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running with":{
"as in beating the drum (for or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beating the drum (for or about)",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run past":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"give",
"offer",
"proffer",
"tender",
"trot out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pose",
"propose",
"hold out",
"give in",
"submit",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive",
"take",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn",
"retract",
"withdraw",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"going on",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runoffs":{
"as in arroyos , freshets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyos",
"billabongs",
"freshes",
"freshets",
"becks",
"bourns",
"bournes",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"burns",
"creeks",
"gills",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runlets",
"runnels",
"runs",
"streamlets",
"bayous",
"coulees",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"streams",
"washes",
"canals",
"channels",
"cutoffs",
"cuts",
"guts",
"kills",
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"races",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"affluents",
"branches",
"confluents",
"distributaries",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running hand":{
"as in print , cursive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backhand",
"copperplate",
"cursive",
"print",
"hand",
"handwriting",
"penmanship",
"script",
"cacography",
"hen scratch",
"hen track",
"scratch",
"scrawl",
"scribble",
"autograph",
"John Hancock",
"John Henry",
"signature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs riot":{
"to behave badly":{
"examples":[
"Students were running riot at yesterday's tailgate."
],
"synonyms":[
"acts out",
"acts up",
"carries on",
"misbehaves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misconducts",
"disobeys",
"rebels",
"clowns (around)",
"cuts up",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"kids (around)",
"shows off",
"roughhouses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obeys",
"acquits",
"acts",
"bears",
"comports",
"conducts",
"demeans",
"deports",
"quits",
"complies",
"conforms",
"checks",
"collects",
"composes",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"handles",
"inhibits",
"moves",
"quiets",
"represses",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs against":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"It surprised her that she ran against some resistance when she presented her plan for the company."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abduct",
"kidnap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"seize",
"shanghai",
"waylay",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducts",
"kidnaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"seizes",
"shanghais",
"waylays",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running (over)",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by or in)",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barging (in)",
"looking up",
"seeing",
"bopping (into)",
"happening (by)",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"picking up",
"pinching",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"seizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run-ins":{
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushes",
"encounters",
"hassles",
"scrapes",
"skirmishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arguments",
"fights",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"battles",
"brawls",
"frays",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runoff":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"throw out",
"turf (out)",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"deport",
"displace",
"dispossess",
"evict",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"ostracize",
"read out",
"shut out",
"ax",
"axe",
"can",
"cashier",
"defenestrate",
"discharge",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take",
"take in",
"welcome",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run away"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in arroyo , freshet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run over":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"perfect",
"refine",
"point (for)",
"prepare (for)",
"train (with)",
"drill",
"repeat",
"work (at or on)",
"review",
"study"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fiddles away",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"loses",
"misspends",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"trifles (away)",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurges",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"overspends",
"shoots",
"indulges",
"overindulges",
"disburses",
"expends",
"lays out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizes",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserves"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run after":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"She ran after the puppy that escaped from the yard."
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"dog",
"follow",
"hound",
"pursue",
"run",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs away":{
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconds",
"breaks out (of)",
"clears out",
"escapes",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"lams",
"runs off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"eludes",
"evades",
"loses",
"shuns",
"decamps",
"departs",
"elopes",
"exits",
"goes",
"leaves",
"moves",
"pulls out",
"quits",
"sallies (forth)",
"shoves (off)",
"takes off",
"walks out",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"brings off",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"redeems",
"releases",
"rescues",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"comes back",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"encounter",
"hassle",
"scrape",
"skirmish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argument",
"fight",
"quarrel",
"row",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"battle",
"brawl",
"fray",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run out on":{
"as in walk out on , go back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"go back on",
"jump ship",
"walk out on",
"defect (from)",
"desert",
"rat (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"cling (to)",
"stick (to or with)",
"cherish",
"cultivate",
"foster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs with":{
"as in beats the drum (for or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beats the drum (for or about)",
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run out":{
"as in throw out , kick out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismiss",
"eject",
"eliminate",
"evict",
"exclude",
"expel",
"expulse",
"kick out",
"oust",
"throw out",
"banish",
"deport",
"displace",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"relegate",
"transport",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"dispossess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalize",
"repatriate",
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take in",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"trumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"dusts",
"flattens",
"pastes",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"skunks",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"tromps",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"whomps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"upsets",
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"dispatches",
"hurdles",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"throws",
"triumphs (over)",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"crushes",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"upends",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"breaks",
"destroys",
"does in",
"finishes",
"sinks",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run-of-mine":{
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"so far, the job posting has attracted only run-of-the-mine applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rune":{
"a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect":{
"examples":[
"wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death"
],
"synonyms":[
"lyric",
"poem",
"song",
"verse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run-through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fiddle away",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"lose",
"misspend",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"trifle (away)",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurge",
"consume",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"impoverish",
"overspend",
"shoot",
"indulge",
"overindulge",
"disburse",
"expend",
"lay out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economize",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserve"
]
},
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"could you give me a quick run-through of what the referendum question is all about?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"roundup",
"rundown",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running riot":{
"to behave badly":{
"examples":[
"Students were running riot at yesterday's tailgate."
],
"synonyms":[
"acting out",
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"misbehaving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misconducting",
"disobeying",
"rebelling",
"clowning (around)",
"cutting up",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"kidding (around)",
"showing off",
"roughhousing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obeying",
"acquitting",
"acting",
"bearing",
"comporting",
"conducting",
"demeaning",
"deporting",
"quitting",
"complying",
"conforming",
"checking",
"collecting",
"composing",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"handling",
"inhibiting",
"moving",
"quieting",
"repressing",
"restraining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"go on",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runaway":{
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"showing no signs of being under control":{
"examples":[
"a region plagued by runaway suburban sprawl"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"intemperate",
"rampant",
"raw",
"unbounded",
"unbridled",
"unchecked",
"uncontrolled",
"unhampered",
"unhindered",
"unrestrained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uncontrollable",
"ungovernable",
"barbaric",
"hog wild",
"riotous",
"uninhibited",
"wild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"tempered"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"governed",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"restrained",
"temperate"
]
},
"as in sweep , landslide":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowout",
"landslide",
"laugher",
"romp",
"shutout",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover",
"capture",
"conquest",
"mastery",
"subjugation",
"vanquishing",
"squeaker",
"palm",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"success",
"takeover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"overthrow",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"whipping",
"upset",
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"failure",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"washout",
"decline",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"runner":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"a drug runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootlegger",
"contrabandist",
"courier",
"smuggler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyote",
"gunrunner",
"mule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"sent a runner to tell them that all was ready for the feast"
],
"synonyms":[
"courier",
"express",
"go-between",
"messenger",
"page"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative",
"bearer",
"carrier",
"deliveryman",
"letter carrier",
"mail carrier",
"mailman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run by":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"give",
"offer",
"proffer",
"tender",
"trot out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pose",
"propose",
"hold out",
"give in",
"submit",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive",
"take",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn",
"retract",
"withdraw",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running out on":{
"as in walking out on , going back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"going back on",
"jumping ship",
"walking out on",
"defecting (from)",
"deserting",
"ratting (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"clinging (to)",
"sticking (to or with)",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"fostering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rungs":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"situations",
"standings",
"stations",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rung up":{
"to make a telephone call to":{
"examples":[
"our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match"
],
"synonyms":[
"called",
"dialed",
"dialled",
"phoned",
"telephoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beeped",
"buzzed",
"called in",
"cold-called"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieved",
"attained",
"bagged",
"chalked up",
"clocked (up)",
"gained",
"hit",
"logged",
"made",
"notched (up)",
"racked up",
"scored",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquired",
"captured",
"carried",
"drawn",
"garnered",
"got",
"gotten",
"landed",
"obtained",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"amounted (to)",
"approached",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"measured up (to)",
"met",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"tied",
"touched",
"beaten",
"beat",
"excelled",
"outdone",
"surpassed",
"topped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fallen short (of)",
"missed",
"failed (at)",
"lost"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run-of-the-mine":{
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"so far, the job posting has attracted only run-of-the-mine applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"running out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"burning",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"devouring",
"draining",
"drawing down",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"playing out",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmenting",
"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewing",
"replacing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run amuck":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"examples":[
"The mayor acknowledged the group's right to march, but warned that they would not be allowed to run amok ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bristle",
"fume",
"rage",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)",
"bluster",
"carry on",
"fulminate",
"rampage",
"rant",
"rave",
"take on",
"burn",
"foam",
"seethe",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"appease",
"pacify",
"soothe",
"check",
"choke (back)",
"collect",
"compose",
"contain",
"curb",
"pocket",
"rein",
"repress",
"restrain",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"moderate",
"temper",
"tone (down)",
"ease",
"let up",
"relax",
"calm",
"cool",
"hush",
"quell",
"quiet",
"settle",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
}
}