run up
Fetched 2026-10-26 (cache).
Synonyms: rub up, runup, run-up, ran up, runs up, sun up, rug up
Antonyms: rub up, runup, run-up, ran up, runs up, sun up, rug up
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Verb
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- {{lb|en|with ''to''}} To [[approach]] (an event or point in time).
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To take to a destination or before an authority.
- {{senseid|en|erect hastily}} {{lb|en|dated}} To erect hastily, as a building.
- {{lb|en|idiomatic|transitive}} To [[make]] something, usually an item of clothing, very [[quickly]].
- {{lb|en|idiomatic|transitive}} To bring (a [[flag]]) to the top of its [[flag pole]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[string up]]; to [[hang]].
- {{lb|en|cricket}} Of a [[bowler]], to run, or [[walk]] up to the [[bowling crease]] in order to [[bowl]] a [[ball]].
- {{lb|en|intransitive|transitive}} To [[rise]]; to swell; to grow; to [[increase]].
- {{lb|en|idiomatic}} To [[accumulate]] (a [[debt]]).
- To [[thrust]] up, as anything long and slender.
- {{lb|en|aviation|transitive}} To [[warm up]] and test an airplane before a flight.
Noun
- {{alt form of|en|run-up}}.
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