Putnam's Word Book
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Chapter 194 : runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.
runaway, n. fugitive, absconder,
runagate, n. renegade, deserter, apostate, vagabond.
runaway, n. fugitive, absconder, deserter, truant, renegade.
runaway, a. fugitive, absconding, truant.
run away. flee, escape, desert, elope, abscond.
run away with. accompany.
run down. decline, deteriorate; decry, belittle, disparage, derogate.
rung, n. round, rime, rundle (of a ladder).
run into. collide.
runner, n. racer, sprinter; messenger, courier.
running, a. successive, consecutive; flowing, easy, cursive; continuous; trailing.
running after. pursuit.
running away. desertion, fleeing, absconding, elopement.
running down. decline, deterioration; decrial, disparagement.
running into. collision.
running out. expiration, extension, expatiation, extinction.
run out. expire; extend, spread; expatiate, descant; become extinct.
run over. overflow.
runround, n. (Colloq.) felon, whitlow.
runt, n. dwarf, pygmy.
run through. squander, dissipate; transfix, impale, pierce.
ruption, n. breach, rupture.
rupture, n. disruption, breach; hernia.
rural, a. rustic, country, countrified, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.
ruralism, n. ruralness, rurality, rusticity.
ruralize, v. rusticate.
ruse, n. artifice, wile, trick, stratagem, maneuver, feint, dodge.
rush, v. press, hurry.
rush, n. activity, demand.
Russia, n. a.s.sociated Words: Russian, russianize, Russification, russify, Russophile, Russophobia, Russophobe, Duma, vodka.
Russian peasant. muzhik, moujik.
rust, n. corrosion, aerugo, verdigris; mildew, blight, mould; pating.
rust, v. corrode; degenerate (in idleness), decline.
rustic, a. rural, country, agrestic; unpolished, countrified, uncouth, rude, rough; coa.r.s.e, plain, simple, inelegant, homely; artless, unaffected.
rustic, n. countryman, farmer; boor, churl, hind, put, carl, yokel.
rusticate, v. ruralize.
rustle, n. rustling, frou-frou.
rustlings a. whispering, susurrous.
rust of plants. ferrugo.
rusty, a. seruginous; ferruginous; reasty, rancid, musty, fusty, mildewed; discolored, stained; rubiginous.
rut, n. groove; roaring (of waves), rote.
rut, n. strus, heat, struation. a.s.sociated Word: strual.
ruth, n. pity, tenderness, compa.s.sion, mercy.
ruthful, a. pitiful, tender, compa.s.sionate, merciful.
ruthless, a. pitiless, cruel, truculent, relentless, implacable, fell, hard-hearted.
ruthlessness, n. truculence, implacability, cruelty, mercilessness.
ruttish, a. l.u.s.tful, salacious, lascivious.
rye, n. a.s.sociated Words: ergot, ergotism, ergotized.
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