Meaning

• To summarise briefly

  "Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it."

• To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry

• To repeat something.

  "We will run through scene 2 until we get it right."

• To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.

  "I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!"

• To go through hastily.

  "to run through a book"

• To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.

  "Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society."

• To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.

  "Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation."

• Of a waterway, to flow through an area.

  "The Seine river runs through Paris."