Meaning

4 senses

  1. (idiomatic)Fleeing.

    The suspect in the robbery is still on the run.

    auf der Flucht

  2. (idiomatic)At a disadvantage; forced to abandon a position.

    The corruption charges against her aides have her on the run.

  3. (idiomatic)Constantly traveling or moving from place to place.

    She's a busy executive and always on the run.

    He had to eat on the run.

  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, run.

    The skier's wife had the baby while he was still on the run.

Examples

80 sentences

  1. I'm going on a run.

    Я на пробіжку. — deniko

    ruЯ собираюсь на пробежку. — marafon

    deIch gehe laufen. — Felixjp

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  2. Come on, we're running late.

    Ну ж бо, ми запізнюємося. — deniko

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  3. Tom is now on the run.

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  4. Tom didn't plan on running into anyone he knew.

    deTom wollte niemandem über den Weg laufen, den er kannte. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Tom didn't plan on running into anybody he knew.

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Translations

5 languages
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By meaning 1
fleeing:

Synonyms

5 synonyms
fleeing:hotA1on the lam
at a disadvantage:in retreat
constantly moving:on the goon the move

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
onA1onboard

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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