RUN THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run through mean? 

• RUN THROUGH (verb)
  The verb RUN THROUGH has 2 senses:

1. apply thoroughly; think through

2. use up (resources or materials)

  Familiarity information: RUN THROUGH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apply thoroughly; think through

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

go through; run through; work through

Context example:

We worked through an example

Hypernyms (to "run through" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run through"):

whip through (go through very fast)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

run-through (an uninterrupted rehearsal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out

Context example:

They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Hypernyms (to "run through" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Verb group:

occupy; take; use up (require (time or space))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run through"):

run out (exhaust the supply of)

drain (deplete of resources)

indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)

burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))

spend (spend completely)

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They run through more bread

 Context examples 

CD34 selection is a process where the protein is identified as the tissue is run through a machine and the positive cells are selected out from the non-CD34+ cells.

(CD34 Selection, NCI Thesaurus)

She felt his shoulder press hers, and a tremor run through him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Labeled DNAs were reacted with crude cell extracts and the complexes are run through a non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel.

(Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

There are two rivers which run through the meadows, and between them lie the tents of the besiegers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As said, the message of this eclipse will stay with you and run through 2020 like beautiful, lyrical background music.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mr. Rochester, on hearing the name, set his teeth; he experienced, too, a sort of strong convulsive quiver; near to him as I was, I felt the spasmodic movement of fury or despair run through his frame.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof; and to this Mrs. Grant was indebted for her sister's proposal of coming to her, a measure quite as welcome on one side as it could be expedient on the other; for Mrs. Grant, having by this time run through the usual resources of ladies residing in the country without a family of children—having more than filled her favourite sitting-room with pretty furniture, and made a choice collection of plants and poultry—was very much in want of some variety at home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)