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Run through   /rən θru/   Listen
Run through

verb
1.
Apply thoroughly; think through.  Synonyms: go through, work through.
2.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, use up, wipe out.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"






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"Run through" Quotes from Famous Books



... would seem to indicate that the elevation above the surrounding plateau was due to volcanic action. The structure of White Island is very different from the others, a large portion of the rock being studded with innumerable small garnets, while veins of some grayish white minerals run through it in which there ...
— Sketches from Concord and Appledore • Frank Preston Stearns

... came running to the house where Mary was living in Akpap. He had run a long way. He was scratched up and sweating. He had run through the ...
— White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor • A. J. Bueltmann

... north-west and promised us a rapid passage across the Grande Traverse to the mouth of Rainy River. Embarking hastily, we set sail for a strait known as the Grassy Portage, which the high stage of water in the lake enabled us to run through without touching ground. Beyond this strait there stretched away a vast expanse of water over which the white-capped waves were running in high billows from the west. It soon became so rough that we had to take on board the small canoe which ...
— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

... open and shut. Waiters and servants run through the hall giving orders and carrying on those quarrels which pertain to the unseen parts ...
— David Lockwin--The People's Idol • John McGovern

... had fallen, shot through the head by a pistol discharged by the officer; who had himself been, a moment later, run through by D'Arblay, at whom the shot had been aimed. Gathering his men together, the Huguenot leader rode back and, when halfway through the wood, they encountered the other party; whose officer had at once ridden ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty


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