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ran behind

ran behind is the simple past of run behind.

Meaning of run behind

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, behind.
  2. To be late; to be behind schedule.

Questions about ran behind

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

Words near ran behind in the dictionary

  1. ran away together
  2. ran away with
  3. ran back
  4. ran barefoot through
  5. ran before
  6. ran behind
  7. ran by
  8. ran circles around
  9. ran counter
  10. ran deep
  11. ran down

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