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ran about

ran about is the simple past of run about.

Meaning of run about

Verb

run about (third-person singular simple present runs about, present participle running about, simple past ran about, past participle run about)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, about.
    Synonyms:
    run around
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.
    • I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

Questions about ran about

What is ran about the simple past of?
Ran about is the simple past of run about.

Words near ran about in the dictionary

  1. ran a mile
  2. ran a muck
  3. ran a risk
  4. ran a temperature
  5. ran a train
  6. ran about
  7. ran about with
  8. ran across
  9. ran adrift
  10. ran afoul of
  11. ran after

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ran about (page history and authors); run about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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