Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

run with

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.47 in modern English

Syllables: run with
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To be streaming with a fluid.

verb

To follow something through to completion or realization.

Informal

verb

To take an incomplete or inadequate (plan, text, etc.) and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness.

Informal

verb

To be a member of (a gang, hooligan firm, etc.); to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group.

American usage; Informal

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, with.

Example Sentences

"After a long run, his face was running with sweat."
"The streets were running with rain water."
"3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it."
"They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me."
"The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
"For about three years, I ran with several different gangs."

Usage

Informal
American usage

Inflected Forms

runs with (present, singular) running with (participle, present) ran with (past)

Synonyms

consort keep company

Questions

What does run with mean?: To be streaming with a fluid.

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