run throughsomething
phrasal verbwithrunverbuk/rʌn/us/rʌn/present participlerunning|past tenseran|past participlerun
(EXAMINE)
tolookat,examine, ordealwith a set of things,especiallyquickly:
Weranthrough thelist, but none of themachinesseemedany good.
I'd like torunthrough thesepoints/questionswithyou, if that'sokay, because you've made severalmistakes.
Analysing and evaluating
- adjudication
- analysable
- analyse
- analyser
- enquiry
- gauge
- go over
- go through
- have the measure ofsomeone/somethingidiom
- inspect
- inspection
- probe
- reinterpret
- reinterpretation
- reinvestigate
- reinvestigation
- research
- scratch
- the acid test
- vet
(EXIST)
If aqualityrunsthrough something, it is in allpartsof it:
Melancholyrunsthrough all herstories.
Racismrunsrightthroughsociety.
Filling and completing
- backfill
- box ticking
- brick
- brick upsomething
- brim
- fill
- gas
- jam
- overcrowd
- overrun
- pack
- packsomething/somewhereout
- permeate
- pervade
- round
- suffuse
- supersaturated
- takesomethingup
- tank up
- topsomethingup
(USE UP)
to use up anamountof somethingquickly:
It took him just a fewmonthstorunthrough all themoneyhisfatherlefthim.
Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- avail
- availyourselfofsomething
- be/go heavy onsomethingidiom
- exhaust
- go through
- gobblesomethingup
- make capital out ofsomethingidiom
- max
- max out
- spare
- spent
- swallow
- tap
- turn over
- turn tosomeone/something
- turn/usesomethingto good accountidiom
- unblock
- underuse