Scrabble & Words with friends points
- runs is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 4
- runs is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 4
- runs is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 6
Definition of runs
- a small stream (noun)
Synonyms
- rill
- rivulet
- runnel
- streamlet
- have a particular form (verb)
Examples
- the story or argument runs as follows
Synonyms
- go
- perform as expected when applied (verb)
Examples
- Does this old car still run well?
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- function
- go
- operate
- work
- compete in a race (verb)
Examples
- he is running the Marathon this year
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- race
- become undone (verb)
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- unravel
- a row of unravelled stitches (noun)
Examples
- she got a run in her stocking
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- ladder
- ravel
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely (noun)
Examples
- the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th
Synonyms
- tally
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position (verb)
Examples
- Who's running for treasurer this year?
Synonyms
- campaign
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging (verb)
Examples
- Her nylons were running
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- ladder
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. (verb)
Examples
- She is running a relief operation in the Sudan
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- operate
- extend or continue for a certain period of time (verb)
Examples
- The film runs 5 hours
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- run for
- a race between candidates for elective office (noun)
Examples
- he is raising money for a Senate run
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- campaign
- political campaign
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize (verb)
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- carry
- pass over, across, or through (verb)
Synonyms
- draw
- guide
- pass
- the act of testing something (noun)
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- test
- trial
- travel a route regularly (verb)
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- ply
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine (verb)
Examples
- run a new program on the Mac
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- execute
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run (verb)
Examples
- If you see this man, run!
Synonyms
- break away
- bunk
- escape
- fly the coop
- head for the hills
- hightail it
- lam
- run away
- scarper
- scat
- take to the woods
- turn tail
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere (verb)
Synonyms
- lead
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined (verb)
Examples
- These dresses run small
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- be given
- incline
- lean
- tend
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point (verb)
Examples
- Service runs all the way to Cranbury
Synonyms
- extend
- go
- lead
- pass
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace (noun)
Examples
- he broke into a run
- his daily run keeps him fit
Synonyms
- running
- cause to emit recorded audio or video (verb)
Synonyms
- play
- keep company (verb)
Examples
- the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring
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- consort
- change or be different within limits (verb)
Examples
- Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent
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- range
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor (verb)
Synonyms
- black market
- continue to exist (verb)
Synonyms
- die hard
- endure
- persist
- prevail
- a race run on foot (noun)
Examples
- she broke the record for the half-mile run
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- foot race
- footrace
- an unbroken series of events (noun)
Examples
- Nicklaus had a run of birdies
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- streak
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating (verb)
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- melt
- melt down
- the pouring forth of a fluid (noun)
Synonyms
- discharge
- outpouring
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team (noun)
Examples
- the defensive line braced to stop the run
- the coach put great emphasis on running
Synonyms
- running
- running game
- running play
- be diffused (verb)
Examples
- These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run
Synonyms
- bleed
- move along, of liquids (verb)
Synonyms
- course
- feed
- flow
- progress by being changed (verb)
Examples
- run through your presentation before the meeting
Synonyms
- go
- move
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) (verb)
Examples
- The dogs are running deer
Synonyms
- hunt
- hunt down
- track down
- an unbroken chronological sequence (noun)
Examples
- the play had a long run on Broadway
- the team enjoyed a brief run of victories
- a regular trip (noun)
Examples
- the ship made its run in record time
- a short trip (noun)
Examples
- take a run into town
- be affected by; be subjected to (verb)
Examples
- run a temperature
- run a risk
- be operating, running or functioning (verb)
Examples
- The car is still running--turn it off!
- carry out (verb)
Examples
- run an errand
- cause an animal to move fast (verb)
Examples
- run the dogs
- cause to perform (verb)
Examples
- run a subject
- run a process
- change from one state to another (verb)
Examples
- run amok
- run rogue
- run riot
- cover by running; run a certain distance (verb)
- make without a miss (verb)
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way (verb)
Examples
- who are these people running around in the building?
- She runs around telling everyone of her troubles
- let the dogs run free
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time (verb)
Examples
- Don't run--you'll be out of breath
- occur persistently (verb)
Examples
- Musical talent runs in the family
- run with the ball; in such sports as football (verb)
- sail before the wind (verb)
- set animals loose to graze (verb)
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation (noun)
Examples
- the assembly line was on a 12-hour run
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.) (noun)
Examples
- a daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means (verb)
Examples
- She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there
- unrestricted freedom to use (noun)
Examples
- he has the run of the house
See definition of runs in Merriam Webster