run through

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To repeat something.
   • We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.

   Synonyms:

   reiterate, run back

   1. (idiomatic, transitive) To summarise briefly.
      • Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
      • The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To go through hastily.
   • to run through a book

   Synonyms:

   skim through, slubber

   1. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To quickly inform, train or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry.
      • ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.2009, Jorge S. Olson with Carlos Lopez, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115
   2. (idiomatic, transitive) To get something approved quickly.
      • The plans for the new building were rushed through.
   3. (idiomatic, transitive) To use (something, often money) completely, in a short space of time.
      • Near-synonyms: burn through, get through
      • I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.
   • Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
   • The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times

   Synonyms:

   permeate, riddle

   1. (idiomatic, transitive) To be present and intense.
      • The cardamom runs through the cake.
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To impale (a person) with a blade, usually a sword.
   • Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
   • D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15

   Synonyms:

   spear, transpierce, empierce, fix, impale, pierce, prick, puncture, stake, stick

5. (figuratively, slang, transitive) To have sex with (someone).
   • “There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find^([sic]) himself with a half-breed...2021 April 19, Trey R. Barker, Jonathan Brown, S.A. Cosby, John M. Floyd, Debra H. Goldstein, Gar Anthony Haywood, Penny Mickelbury, William Dylan Powell, Kimberly B. Richardson, Stacy Woodson, Jukes...

   Synonyms:

   fuck, plough, service, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague

6. (idiomatic, transitive) To continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.
   • You just ran through a stop sign.
7. (transitive) To flow through an area.
   • The Seine river runs through Paris.
8. (intransitive, transitive) To have a route that goes through an area; to continue through an area; to complete a route.
   • This train runs through the county.
9. (transitive) To continue through territory owned by another company without being exchanged for a different train.
10. (historical) To produce steel by continuing to pump molten iron into a mould after it is full.
11. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, through.
    • He ran through the park to get the other side.