Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb run_on

2 senses of run on

Sense 1
run on -- (talk or narrate at length)
       => speak, talk -- (use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect")

Sense 2
run on, keep going -- (continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M.")
       => continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep -- (continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight")

Antonyms of adj run_on

1 sense of run-on

Sense 1
run-on (vs. end-stopped) -- ((verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines)

end-stopped (vs. run-on) -- ((verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line)

Similarity of adj run_on

1 sense of run-on

Sense 1
run-on (vs. end-stopped) -- ((verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines)