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Run on

verb
Word Frequency: 4.0

Definitions

1.verbTo continue without interruption
"We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time."
2.verbUsing a certain time zone.
3.verbTo continue talking for a long time.
"She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways."
4.verbTo operate with a particular energy source.
"This car runs on bio-alcohol."
5.verbTo make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
6.verbTo carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
7.verbTo press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.

Synonyms

keep goingjog onkeep it movinggo onrun throughtick overpress oncrack onmove onmove alongrun wildmove ahead
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