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running
Synonyms and Antonyms of running
- the car has been running for almost an entire day
active, alive, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, operative, working
- a running struggle just to make ends meet
intermittent, periodic, periodical, recurrent, recurring
alternate, alternating, cyclic (or cyclical), rhythmic (or rhythmical), seasonal, serial
erratic, fitful, irregular, occasional, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, unsteady
running
Synonyms and Antonyms of running
- he won the championship five times running
back-to-back, consecutively, hand running [dialect], sequentially, seriatim, successionally, successively, together
running
Synonyms and Antonyms of running
- left the running of the corporation to his subordinates
Synonyms and Antonyms of running
- we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus
bounding, cantering, leaping, loping, shagging, skipping, springing
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing [slang], bowling, breezing, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, coursing, footing (it), haring, hastening, hoofing (it), hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, legging (it), pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, rushing, rustling, shooting, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
nipping, pattering, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, stepping (along)
- rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise
absconding, clearing out, decamping, eloping, escaping, getting (away), getting out, lamming, lighting out, making off, mizzling [chiefly British], scarpering [British], scatting, scramming, skipping (out), skirring
- the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month
- water running down the window
- run and get the nurse
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing [slang], bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling (or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
- unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness
- they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly
- I know how to run that machine
- the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children
- her makeup started to run when she got in the pool
deliquescing, fluxing, fusing, liquefying (also liquifying), melting, thawing
- learning to run the family business
- in olden days mills were run by flowing water
- that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars
- he's been running with a bad crowd lately
affiliating, allying, attaching, banding, bonding, clubbing, collaborating, colluding, confederating, conjoining, connecting, cooperating, coupling, ganging, getting along, getting on, grouping, interrelating, joining, knotting, leaguing, linking, mingling, mixing, rallying, relating, siding, socializing, teaming, tying (or tieing), wedding
- if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt
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