run through sth
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(EXAMINE)
to look at, examine, or deal with a set of things, especially quickly:
We ran through the list, but none of the machines seemed any good.
I'd like to run through these points/questions with you, if that's okay, because you've made several mistakes.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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(EXIST)
If a quality runs through something, it is in all parts of it:
Melancholy runs through all her stories.
Racism runs right through society.
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Filling and completing
- brick
- brick up sth
- brim
- crowd
- crowd sb/sth out
- fill
- jam
- occupancy
- occupy
- overcrowded
- overran
- overrun
- plug
- round
- supersaturated
- tank
- tank up
- top sb up
- top sth up
- wadding
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(USE UP)
to use up an amount of something quickly:
It took him just a few months to run through all the money his father left him.
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Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go into sth
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- mine
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- use sth up
- wear
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