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running on

verb , present participle of run on

Synonyms and Antonyms of running on

1 to engage in casual or rambling conversation

we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years

Synonyms of running on

babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering [British], chattering, chatting, chinning [slang], conversing, gabbing, gabbling, gassing, jabbering, jawing, kibitzing (also kibbitzing), nattering, palavering, pattering, prating, prattling, rapping, rattling, schmoozing (or shmoozing), talking, twittering, visiting

Words Related to running on

gossiping, tattling

descanting, discussing, expatiating

yakking (also yacking), yammering, yapping

Phrases Synonymous with running on

blowing smoke, chewing the fat (also chewing the rag), shooting the breeze, talking a blue streak

2 to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state

allow the savings account to run on for now

Synonyms of running on

abiding, biding, continuing, enduring, holding on, holding up, keeping up, lasting, perduring, persisting, remaining

Words Related to running on

lingering, staying, sticking around, tarrying

carrying through, prevailing, surviving

Near Antonyms of running on

abating, dying (down), ebbing, letting up, moderating, subsiding, waning

Antonyms of running on

ceasing, closing, concluding, desisting, discontinuing, dying, ending, expiring, finishing, lapsing, leaving off, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up

3 to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point

she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on

Synonyms of running on

blathering (on), going on, maundering, rambling, rattling

Words Related to running on

deviating, digressing, straying, wandering

blabbering, blabbing, blithering, bumbling, burbling, chattering, chatting, driveling (or drivelling), drooling, gabbing, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, pattering, prating, prattling, waffling

Phrases Synonymous with running on

running one's mouth

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