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RUN THROUGH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Example:

They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apply thoroughly; think through

Example:

We worked through an example

Synonyms:

go through; run through; work through

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

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)

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