Run and Spearhead

Run

Run verb - To go at a pace faster than a walk.

Spearhead and run are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spearhead" instead a verb "Run".

Nearby Word: running

Spearhead

Spearhead verb - To serve as leader of.
Usage example: unofficially at least, Martin Luther King spearheaded the civil rights movement

Run and spearhead are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Run" instead a verb "Spearhead".

Nearby Words: spear, spearheaded, spearheading

How words are described

big big run big spearhead

Common collocations

operation run operation spearhead operation
campaign run campaign spearhead campaign
attacks run attacks spearhead attacks

Both words in one sentence

  • Epic Tank-on-Tank Action The American commander knows the German forces are low on fuel, so he sends a group of American tanks on a suicide mission to attack the Panzer spearhead and "run them out of gas".
  • Smoke Out Sluggy Freelance: In "The Research and Development Wars — Spearhead", when Riff, Sam, Bun-bun and Slaughteresa are on their way to rescue Torg and run into the main force of the Chinese mutants, Teresa uses some smoke bombs.
    Source: Smoke Out
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex For example, the Third Doctor sees himself in the mirror at the start of "Spearhead from Space", is mortified, but soon declares it's not all bad and spends the rest of his run acting convinced he's gorgeous.
Cite this Source
Spearhead and Run. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead
Run & Spearhead. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead>.
Spearhead or Run. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/run/spearhead.
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