Run On Synonyms and Antonyms

rŭnŏn, -ôn
Continue uninterrupted
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chatter
  2. maunder
  3. keep-going
  4. gabble
Designating or of a line of verse that has little or no natural syntactic pause between it and the next line
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. end-stopped

Words Related to Run On

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. gossip
  2. run
  3. ramble
  4. enjambment
  5. operate on
  6. run-from
  7. run-with
  8. life-imprisonment
  9. verbless

Run On Sentence Examples

  • In 1886 the old Liberal party was run on the rocks and went to pieces.

  • Jackson lingered in the shower; bracing his hands on the wall, letting the water run on the back of his neck.

  • In the system devised by Mr Louis Brennaxi the cars run on a single rail laid on the ground, their stability being maintained by a heavy gyrostat revolving at great speed in a vacuum.

  • In Great Britain the mineral trucks can ordinarily hold from 8 to io tons (long tons, 2240 lb), and the goods trucks rather less, though there are wagons in use holding 12 or 15 tons, and the specifications agreed to by the railway companies associated in the Railway Clearing House permit private wagon owners (who own about 45% of the wagon stock run on the railways of the United Kingdom) to build also wagons holding 20, 30, 40 and 56 tons.

  • Now and then it has been dealt with piecemeal, when some particular class of creditors has become too pressing, but it is more than probable that the piece got rid of has been more or less rapidly replaced by fresh liabilities occasioned by budgetary deficits, or by the mere accumulation of interest on debts allowed to run on.

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