Ran
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹæn/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Ran is a verb meaning simple past of run.
Meaning
simple past of run.
More Meanings
- simple past of rin
- (nonstandard, colloquial) past participle of run
- (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Example Sentences
" Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…]
I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.
[…]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…]
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