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runny

 adjective
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
run‧ny informal
1MI a runny nose, runny eyes etc have liquid coming out of them, usually because you have a cold
2 food that is runny is not as solid or thick as normal or as desired:
The butter had gone runny in the heat.
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