Akademik

run up
verb
1. pile up (debts or scores) (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
↑roll up, ↑collect, ↑accumulate, ↑pile up, ↑amass, ↑compile, ↑hoard
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

2. raise (Freq. 1)
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hoist the flags

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hoist a sail

• Syn: ↑hoist
• Hypernyms: ↑raise, ↑lift, ↑elevate, ↑get up, ↑bring up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

3. fasten by sewing; do needlework (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑sew, ↑sew together, ↑stitch
• Derivationally related forms: ↑stitch (for: ↑stitch), ↑stitcher (for: ↑stitch), ↑stitching (for: ↑stitch), ↑stitchery (for: ↑stitch), ↑sewer (for: ↑sew), ↑sewing (for: ↑sew)
• Hypernyms: ↑fasten, ↑fix, ↑secure
• Hyponyms:
↑hem, ↑resew, ↑overcast, ↑backstitch, ↑gather, ↑pucker, ↑tuck, ↑finedraw, ↑fell, ↑baste, ↑tack, ↑hemstitch, ↑tick, ↑retick, ↑cast on, ↑cast off
• Entailment: ↑join, ↑conjoin
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s something

4. accumulate as a debt
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he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening

• Syn: ↑chalk up
• Hypernyms: ↑owe
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

5. make by sewing together quickly
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run up a skirt

• Hypernyms: ↑sew, ↑tailor, ↑tailor-make
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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They run up the cape

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run up [phrasal verb]
1 run up (something) or run (something) up
1 a : to raise (a flag) to the top of a flagpole

To celebrate our victory, we ran up our flag.

1 b : to achieve (a large score or lead)

Our team ran up a big lead in the first quarter.

(US) She angrily accused the other coach of deliberately running up the score. [=continuing to try to score more points even though they are not needed to win a game]

1 c : to increase the amount of (something)

These extras will run the bill up another $100.

1 d : to get (a large bill, debt, etc.) by buying many things without making payments
— often + up

She ran up a large phone bill.

He ran up a lot of debt on his credit cards.

2 run up against (something) : to experience (something difficult) : ↑encounter

She has run up against a lot of opposition.

He has run up against a bug in his computer program.

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Main Entry: ↑run

Useful english dictionary. 2012.