Definition of "run with" in English

Verb

1. To be streaming with a fluid.

   • After a long run, his face was running with sweat.
   • The streets were running with rain water.

2. To follow something through to completion or realization.

3. To take an incomplete or inadequate and develop it further, often with the implication of carelessness.

   • They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me.

4. To be a member of ; to associate with a, typically disreputable, individual or group.

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ with.

   • The thief was running with the purse in his hands.