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Run afoul

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Verb
  1. 1
    To become entangled or in conflict with. intransitive, transitive

    "At last we hove in sight of the Pacific, and run afoul one of those villainous head winds which you know often set into the west end of the Straits."

  2. 2
    go against, as of rules and laws wordnet

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