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What is run up?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Run up is a phrasal verb. It has an idiomatic meaning and a literal meaning. Like all verbs it can have a past tense -- ran up

a present participle -- running up

The literal meaning is to go up something, from a lower level to a higher level eg

I run up the road everyday

The monkey ran up the tree.

They were running up the path in the rain.

The idiomatic meaning is to amass or accumulate, incure eg

They run up too many bills each month.

The fraudster ran up a large debt then left.

He is running up debts all over town

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