Synonyms for run up
run up

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1. runup, run-upnoun

   a substantial increase over a relatively short period of time

   "a runup in interest rates"; "market runups are followed by corrections"

   Synonyms:
   runup, run-up

2. run-upverb

   the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed

   Synonyms:
   runup

3. run upverb

   pile up (debts or scores)

   Synonyms:
   chalk up, stitch, sew together, sew, hoist

4. hoist, run upverb

   raise

   "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"

   Synonyms:
   sew, chalk up, hoist, wind, lift, stitch, sew together

5. sew, run up, sew together, stitchverb

   fasten by sewing; do needlework

   Synonyms:
   tailor-make, sew, sew together, hoist, stitch, chalk up, tailor

6. chalk up, run upverb

   accumulate as a debt

   "he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening"

   Synonyms:
   stitch, sew, sew together, chalk up, tally, hoist

7. run upverb

   make by sewing together quickly

   "run up a skirt"

   Synonyms:
   chalk up, stitch, sew together, sew, hoist

Matched Categories

1. • Accumulate
   • Fasten
   • Owe
   • Raise
   • Sew

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1. run up

   Synonyms:
   grow, swell, increase, rise

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1. Meghan Markle:

   Look at the publicity she has brought in run up to the wedding. I’d argue that’s worth every penny.

2. John McCain:

   It's one of these things you just propose amendments to bills and encourage hearings and sooner or later the dam breaks, but I have to tell you ... the power of this maritime lobby is as powerful as anybody or any organization I have run up against in my political career. All I can do is appeal to the patron saint of lost causes and keep pressing and pressing and sooner or later you have to succeed.

3. Dorothy L. Sayers:

   The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

4. Jonathan Barratt:

   It's hard to trade with the current volatility in oil prices, we've run up from $44 a barrel on economic growth and outages. Are we now at the top end? Does that mean at $49-$50 a barrel we'll get U.S. oil shale production starting up?

5. Clarissa Ward:

   Firstly, in the run-up to this cessation of hostilities there was a dramatic increase in the intensiveness ... of Russian aerial bombardment and also of the regime warplanes of Bashar al-Assad, secondly, the people living in rebel territory don't trust the Assad regime and see this cessation of hostilities as a trick designed so that the regime can take more territory.