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To run a blockade

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

             He would himself be in the Highlands to receive
             them, and run his fortune with them. --Clarendon.

   12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be
       bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

             At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while
             ran blood, great C[ae]sar fell.      --Shak.

   13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing;
       as, the rivers ran blood.

   14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory
       or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]

   15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]

   16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material
       in a continuous line, generally taking a series of
       stitches on the needle at the same time.

   17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to
       ascend a river in order to spawn.

   {To run a blockade}, to get to, or away from, a blockaded
      port in safety.

   {To run down}.
       (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is
           captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag.
       (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
       (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. ``Religion is
           run down by the license of these times.'' --Berkeley.
       (d) To disparage; to traduce. --F. W. Newman.

   {To run hard}.
       (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a
           race.
       (b) To urge or press importunately.
       (c) To banter severely.

   {To run into the ground}, to carry to an absurd extreme; to
      overdo. [Slang, U.S.]
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