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run to earth

run to earth verb: to find someone or something after a long and difficult search.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To find someone or something after a long and difficult search.
    • We’ve been trying to contact that witness for ten days, but we still haven’t run him to earth.
    • He went off to Rye, ran Ottershaw to earth in the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.1968, Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax, page 155

Synonyms of run to earth

Forms of run to earth

third-person singular presentruns to earth
present participlerunning to earth
pastran to earth
past participlerun to earth

Words that rhyme with run to earth

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Questions about run to earth

What does run to earth mean?
Run to earth means to find someone or something after a long and difficult search.
What part of speech is run to earth?
Run to earth is a verb.
What is the past tense of run to earth?
The past tense of run to earth is ran to earth.

Words near run to earth in the dictionary

  1. run through
  2. run through the garden
  3. run time
  4. run times
  5. run to
  6. run to earth
  7. run to fat
  8. run to ground
  9. run to seed
  10. run to the ground
  11. run to the hills

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