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run after

verb

  1. to pursue (a member of the opposite sex) with persistent attention
  2. to pursue (anything) persistently
  3. to care for in an excessively attentive or servile way

    she runs after her three grown sons as if they were babies

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Example Sentences

Paris at that time possessed a much run-after clairvoyant, the celebrated Alexis; they thought of going to consult him.

Of an age with Temperance and Sarah, Tess had been the most run-after girl in town during the years of 1890 and '91.

I've heard that you are the most assiduously run-after girl at Palm Beach.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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