run through

Meanings

verbrun through (third-person singular simple present runs through, present participle running through, simple past ran through, past participle run through)

present singular third person runs through · participle present running through · past ran through

idiomatictransitiveTo repeat something.
We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.
Synonyms: reiterate, run back
1. idiomatictransitiveTo summarise briefly.
  Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
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  The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...
  2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145
  Synonyms: reiterate, run back, run over, sum up, abridge, abstract, capsule, concise
idiomatictransitiveTo go through hastily.
to run through a book
Synonyms: skim through, slubber
1. colloquialidiomatictransitiveTo quickly inform, train or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry.
  ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.
  2009, Jorge S. Olson with Carlos Lopez, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115
  Synonyms: skim through, slubber
2. idiomatictransitiveTo get something approved quickly.
  The plans for the new building were rushed through.
  Synonyms: skim through, slubber
3. idiomatictransitiveTo use (something, often money) completely, in a short space of time.
  Near-synonyms: burn through, get through
  2 more examples
  I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
  Tuchel ran through his options in an attempt to crack the Ghana code, with Saka replacing the disappointing Anthony Gordon, and the Arsenal winger almost fashioned the breakthrough when he forced a diving stop from keeper Asare.
  2026 June 23, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Ghana”, in BBC
  Synonyms: skim through, slubber, eat up, expend, burn through, get through
idiomatictransitiveTo pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
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The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.
2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times
Synonyms: permeate, riddle
1. idiomatictransitiveTo be present and intense.
  The cardamom runs through the cake.
  Synonyms: permeate, riddle
Senses as to continuing all the way through something
1. idiomatictransitiveTo impale (a person) with a blade, usually a sword.
  Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
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  D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.
  1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15
  Synonyms: spear, transpierce, empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, puncture
2. figurativelyslangtransitiveTo have sex with (someone).
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  “There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find^([sic]) himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]
  2021 April 19, Trey R. Barker, Jonathan Brown, S.A. Cosby, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Gar Anthony Haywood, Penny Mickelbury, William Dylan Powell, Kimberly B. Richardson, Stacy Woodson, Jukes & Tonks: Crime Fiction Inspired by Music in the Dark and Suspect Choices, Down & Out Books
  Synonyms: fuck, plough, service, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight
3. idiomatictransitiveTo continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.
  You just ran through a stop sign.
4. transitiveTo flow through an area.
  The Seine river runs through Paris.
5. intransitivetransitiveTo have a route that goes through an area; to continue through an area; to complete a route.
  This train runs through the county.
6. transitiveTo continue through territory owned by another company without being exchanged for a different train.
7. historicalartsTo produce steel by continuing to pump molten iron into a mould after it is full.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
He ran through the park to get the other side.