English-Spanish translations for run up

Definition of run up

• To run ; to hasten to a destination
• To approach (an event or point in time
• To erect hastily, as a building
• To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole
• To string up; to hang
• To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase
• To accumulate (a debt
• To thrust up, as anything long and slender
• the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker

Examples

• The small boy ran up the hill.
• As I was walking along the road, a man suddenly ran up to me.
• The dog ran up under the table to get his food.
• We are putting on lots of special attractions as we run up to Christmas.
• Ill run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening.
• Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up.
• He runs up... and bowls. Smashed away for four runs!
• Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
• He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills.
• The fence runs up along the edge of the pasture.

Related words

• runner up
• strung up
• scrunch up
• drunken stupor
• run up against
• runner-up
• run-up
• superuniversal
• warm up by running