running

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Synonyms: cunning, ruining, bunning, gunning, punning, renning, dunning, sunning, tunning, funning, ronning

Antonyms: cunning, ruining, bunning, gunning, punning, renning, dunning, sunning, tunning, funning, ronning

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Verb

1. {{infl of|en|run||ing-form}}

Adjective

1. Moving or advancing at a run.
2. [[present|Present]], [[current]].
3. [[flowing|Flowing]]; [[easy]]; [[cursive]].
4. [[continuous|Continuous]]; [[ongoing]]; keeping along step by step.
5. Having a continuous design or pattern.
6. [[consecutive|Consecutive]] {{q|much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below}}.
7. {{lb|en|botany}} Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
8. {{lb|en|medicine}} Discharging [[pus]].
9. {{lb|en|medicine|of a nose}} [[discharge|Discharging]] [[snot]] or [[mucus]].

Adverb

1. {{lb|en|informal}} [[consecutively|Consecutively]]; [[in a row]].

Noun

1. The action of the verb {{m|en|to [[run]]}}.
2. The activity of running as a form of [[exercise]], as a [[sport]], or for any other reason.
3. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
4. The [[discharge]] from an [[ulcer]] or other [[sore]].
5. {{lb|en|colloquial}} The act of [[run errands|running errands]].
6. {{senseid|en|physics}}{{lb|en|physics}} The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated [[renormalization]] issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.

Preposition

1. {{lb|en|colloquial}} Approaching; [[about]]; [[roughly]]. {{rfex|en}} <!--Chambers 1908-->

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.

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