Dictionary entry details
• RUN UP (verb)
Meaning:
Pile up (debts or scores)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Raise
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
run up; hoist
Context examples:
hoist the flags / hoist a sail
Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Fasten by sewing; do needlework
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
sew; sew together; stitch; run up
Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):
fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)
"Run up" entails doing...:
conjoin; join (make contact or come together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run up"):
hem (fold over and sew together to provide with a hem)
cast on (make the first row of stitches when knitting)
retick; tick (sew)
hemstitch (sew with hemstitches)
baste; tack (sew together loosely, with large stitches)
fell (sew a seam by folding the edges)
finedraw (sew together very finely)
gather; pucker; tuck (draw fabric together and sew it tightly)
backstitch (do backstitches)
overcast (sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches)
overcast (sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next)
resew (sew again)
cast off (make the last row of stitches when knitting)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Accumulate as a debt
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
chalk up; run up
Context example:
he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening
Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):
owe (be obliged to pay or repay)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make by sewing together quickly
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
run up a skirt
Hypernyms (to "run up" is one way to...):
sew; tailor; tailor-make (create (clothes) with cloth)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
They run up the cape
