To run up Meaning, Definition & Usage
Definitions
- to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott.
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(a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.(b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account .e.g. to incur a debt, as to run up a bill(c) To erect hastily, as a building .
