run up

Meaning

Verb

1. To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
2. To approach (an event or point in time).
3. (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
4. (dated) To erect hastily, as a building.
5. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
6. (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
7. (transitive) To string up; to hang.
8. Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
9. (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
10. (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
11. To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
12. (transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
13. (reflexive, slang, sometimes) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
14. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.

Noun

Alternative form of run-up.

Synonyms

hoist

sew

wind up

hoist up

raise

chalk up

sew together

accumulate

amass

stitch

put up

add to

advance

come running

convey

cut

cut in

dig out

doff

drag

draw

draw off

elevate

enhance

exasperate

gain

gather up

heave

hike

increase

inflation

insert

intensify

interlard

intersperse

lace

lift

lift up

pick up

put on

quilt

race

redound

run

stand up

suffix

suture

tack

tack together

tailor

Translations

accourir

aanloop

contraer

خاط

رقع

طرز

رتق

خاط جرحا

خاط الجرح

ضحك بتشنج

قطّب

مارس الخياطة

cosir

elevar

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