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What is the verb for run?

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run

(vertebrates) To move swiftly.

(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
(intransitive) To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.
(transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
(intransitive, soccer) To carry a football down the field.
(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
(intransitive) To flee away from a danger or towards help.
(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.

(fluids) To flow.

(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.
(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
(figuratively, transitive) To go through without stopping, usually illegally.

(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
(social) To carry out an activity.

(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
(transitive) To make run in a race or an election.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
(intransitive) To be presented in one of the media.
(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
(transitive) To transport someone or something.
(transitive) To smuggle illegal goods.
(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.

To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.

(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
(transitive) To make something extend in space.
(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
(transitive) To make a machine operate.

(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
(copular verb) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
To have growth or development.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
(video game) To speedrun.
Synonyms:

dash, race, rush, hurry, sprint, bolt, career, speed, dart, gallop, hare, hasten, scamper, scurry, fly, jog, scuttle, trot, shoot, bound, hurtle, tear, zoom, lope, scoot, barrel, belt, charge, go, hie, pelt, pound, streak, whizz, zip, bomb, double, flash, jogtrot, sweep, dogtrot, hotfoot it, hustle, scramble, whip, blow, breeze, bustle, buzz, cannonball … more

Examples:

“We had to run fast to make it to our train.”

“We would run from the mean-looking characters who were lurking in the alley.”

“Our poor dog had no idea that it was a bad idea to run after its own tail.”

run away

To flee by running
To leave home, or other place of residence, usually unannounced, or to make good on a threat, with such action usually performed by a child or juvenile.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Arthur Morgan would run away from the O'Driscolls who were shooting at him.”

“His sister told him that he had to clear up the mess he had created rather than run away from it.”

“There have been instances where young lasses have decided to run away with their beau to escape from poverty.”

ran

simple past tense of run
(nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of run
Synonyms:

running

rin

(transitive) To run.
Examples:

“Drinking-water costs him two rin, while two rin per day pays for the priest.”

“The Japanese word for ethics is rinri, which is composed of two characters, rin and ri.”

“That callant's tongue will rin the head aff his ain shoulders, and waste my gudes to the very grey cloak on my back!”

runs away

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of run away
Synonyms:

runs

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of run
Synonyms:

dashes, races, rushes, hurries, sprints, bolts, careers, speeds, darts, gallops, hares, hastens, scampers, scurries, flies, jogs, scuttles, trots, shoots, bounds, hurtles, tears, zooms, lopes, scoots, barrels, belts, charges, goes, hies, pelts, pounds, streaks, whizzes, zips, bombs, doubles, flashes, jogtrots, sweeps, dogtrots, hotfoots it, hustles, scrambles, whips, blows, breezes, bustles, buzzes, cannonballs … more

rins

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rin

runneth

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of run
Examples:

“The list runneth short, so who is Batman supposed to fight when his usual enemies wax lackadaisical and unimpassioned?”

“Whatever deed is appointed by the disposer to be the destruction of any man, dogs his steps whithersoever he runneth.”

“The Brothers' cup of tradition runneth over.”

runnest

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of run

runned

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of run
Examples:

“We runned out of gas, she told her sister, who was sucking her fingers again, the way she had when she was a baby.”

“In Belgium, she has runned an osteopathic clinic and an international osteopathic academy in association with Maidstone College for 15 years.”

“The competition proper will take place on 30 January and will be runned as an individual competition on a distance of about five kilometers.”

running away

ran away

simple past tense of run away
Synonyms:

Examples:

“Frightened, they ran away but returned shortly after to the soldier with a loaf of rye bread and a round of white bread.”

“If you shot a gun and everyone ran away as quickly as possible, the game wouldn't be as enjoyable.”

“So as the waves washed in and ran away again, she was soothed and mellowed.”

rinning

present participle of rin

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