correr

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to run (to move quickly on one’s feet)
  2. (intransitive) to run away; to flee
  3. (intransitive) to speed (to drive too fast)
  4. (intransitive) to rush; to hurry (to do something hastily)
  5. (intransitive) to flow (to move in liquid form)
  6. (broadly, intransitive) to run (in the family) (to be a characteristic feature of)
  7. (intransitive) to elapse; to pass quickly
  8. to be passed around; to spread (of a rumour/rumor)
  9. (intransitive, transitive) to draw; to slide over a rod or trail
  10. (transitive) to slide (an object)
  11. (intransitive) to slide
  12. (transitive) to run (a risk or danger)
  13. (intransitive, transitive) to participate, to race
  14. (transitive) to tour (to make a circuit of a place)
  15. (intransitive) to go (to proceed in a specified manner)
  16. (Brazil, transitive) to chase off (to make someone or something flee)
  17. (Portugal) to run (a program)

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈʁe(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese correr, from Latin currere (“to run”), from Proto-Italic *korzō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).

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