Is your refrigerator doing this? Better go catch it 🤣
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noun
- The action of running
- Race
- Physical condition for running
- Management, care
adjective
- Cursive, flowing
- Fluid, runny
- Incessant, continuous
"a running battle"
- Made during the course of a process or activity
"a running commentary on the game"
- Measured in a straight line
"cost of lumber per running foot"
- Initiated or performed while running or with a running start
"a running catch"
- Of, relating to, or being a football play in which the ball is advanced by running rather than by passing
"their running game was off"
- Designed for use by runners
"a running track"
- Fitted or trained for running rather than walking, trotting, or jumping
"a running horse"
adverb
- In succession consecutively
"three days running"
verb
- To go faster than a walk
- To move at a fast gallop
- Flee, retreat, escape
"dropped the gun and ran"
- To utilize a running play on offense
- To go without restraint move freely about at will
"let chickens run loose"
- To keep company consort
"a ram running with ewes"
- To sail before the wind in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled
- Roam, rove
"running about with no overcoat"
- To go rapidly or hurriedly hasten
"run and fetch the doctor"
- To go in urgency or distress resort
"runs to mother at every little difficulty"
- To make a quick, easy, or casual trip or visit
"ran over to borrow some sugar"
- To contend in a race
- To enter into an election contest
"will run for mayor"
- To move on or as if on wheels glide
"file drawers running on ball bearings"
- To roll forward rapidly or freely
- To pass or slide freely
"a rope runs through the pulley"
- To ravel lengthwise
"stockings guaranteed not to run"
- To sing or play a musical passage quickly
"run up the scale"
- To go back and forth ply
"the train runs between New York and Washington"
- To migrate or move in considerable numbers
- Turn, rotate
"a swiftly running grindstone"
- Function, operate
"the engine runs on gasoline"
- To accompany as a valid obligation or right
"a right-of-way that runs with the land"
- To continue to accrue or become payable
"interest on the loan runs from July 1"
- To pass from one state to another
"run into debt"
- To flow rapidly or under pressure
- Melt, fuse
- Spread, dissolve
"colors guaranteed not to run"
- To discharge liquid (such as pus or serum)
"a running sore"
- To develop rapidly in some specific direction
- To tend to produce or develop a specified quality or feature
"they run to big noses in that family"
- To lie in or take a certain direction
"the boundary line runs east"
- To lie or extend in relation to something
- To go back reach
- To occur persistently
"musical talent runs in the family"
- To exist or occur in a continuous range of variation
"shades run from white to dark gray"
- To spread or pass quickly from point to point
"chills ran up her spine"
- To be current circulate
"speculation ran rife"
- To cause (an animal) to go rapidly ride or drive fast
- To bring to a specified condition by or as if by running
"ran himself to death"
- To go in pursuit of hunt, chase
"dogs that run deer"
- To follow the trail of backward trace
"ran the rumor to its source"
- To enter, register, or enroll as a contestant in a race
- To put forward as a candidate for office
- To carry (the football) on a running play
- To drive (livestock) especially to a grazing place
- To provide pasturage for (livestock)
- To keep or maintain (livestock) on or as if on pasturage
- To accomplish or perform by or as if by running
"ran a great race"
- To slip or go through or past
"run a blockade"
- To travel on in a boat
"run the rapids"
- To cause to penetrate or enter thrust
"ran a splinter into her toe"
- Stitch
- To cause to pass lead
"run a wire in from the antenna"
- To cause to collide
"ran his head into a post"
- Smuggle
"run guns"
- To cause to pass lightly or quickly over, along, or into something
"ran her eye down the list"
- To cause or allow (a vehicle or a vessel) to go in a specified manner or direction
"ran the car off the road"
- Operate
"run a lathe"
- To direct the business or activities of manage, conduct
"run a factory"
- To employ or supervise in espionage
"run an agent"
- To be full of or drenched with
"streets ran blood"
- Contain, assay
- To cause to move or flow in a specified way or into a specified position
"run cards into a file"
- To cause to produce a flow (as of water)
"run the faucet"
- To melt and cast in a mold
"run bullets"
- Treat, process, refine
"run oil in a still"
- To make oneself liable to incur
"ran the risk of discovery"
- To mark out draw
"run a contour line on a map"
- To permit (charges) to accumulate before settling
"run a tab at the bar"
- Cost
"rooms that run $50 a night"
- To produce by or as if by printing
- To carry in a printed medium print
"every newspaper ran the story"
- To make (a series of counts) without a miss
"run 19 in an inning in billiards"
- To lead winning cards of (a suit) successively
- To alter by addition
"ran his record to six wins and four losses"
- To make (a golf ball) roll forward after alighting
- To eject (a player, coach, or manager) from a game
"Ron Luciano ran Weaver early in game one of a doubleheader in 1975, and then ran him again during the lineup meeting prior to the start of game two."
noun
- A football back (such as a halfback or fullback) who carries the ball on running plays
noun
- A footboard especially at the side of an automobile
noun
- One who blindly follows someone else's orders lackey
noun
- The working and carrying parts of a machine (such as a locomotive)
- The parts of an automobile chassis not used in developing, transmitting, and controlling power
noun
- Handwriting in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen
noun
- A headline repeated on consecutive pages (as of a book)
This clue was used on February 2, 2025.
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