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ran ahead

ran ahead is the simple past of run ahead.

Meaning of run ahead

Verb

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

  1. To use sidings to pass a different train.
  2. To proceed beyond peers or beyond some limit.
    • The culture has run ahead of what people are comfortable with.
  3. (transitive) To execute (code) in advance, anticipating a likely upcoming need for the result.

Questions about ran ahead

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

Words near ran ahead in the dictionary

  1. ran adrift
  2. ran afoul of
  3. ran after
  4. ran against
  5. ran aground
  6. ran ahead
  7. ran along
  8. ran amok
  9. ran amuck
  10. ran an errand
  11. ran and gunned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ran ahead (page history and authors); run ahead (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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