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Run into
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- 1 To enter by running. literally
"He ran into the building."
- 2 hit against; come into sudden contact with wordnet
- 3 To collide with.
"He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree."
- 4 collide violently with an obstacle wordnet
- 5 To cause to collide with.
"He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree."
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- 6 come together wordnet
- 7 To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively). broadly
"I ran into your cousin the other day."
- 8 be beset by wordnet
- 9 To reach, to flow into (a body of water). dated
"1849, Charles Anthon, A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Harper & Brothers, Publishers (1871), page 58, Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, now Urumea, runs into the sea."
- 10 To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
"2003, Julie M. Crandall and Mary Helen Brown, "The Millennium Waltz: A Story in Three-Quarter Time", Chapter 18 in Robin Patric Clair (ed.), Expressions of Ethnography: Novel Approaches to Qualitative Methods, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 189, Of course, a show might start at a certain time, and one must place bets at the sports book at the right time, but for the most part, day runs into night and night runs into day without notice or comment."
- 11 To cause to blend into.
"You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other."
- 12 To reach a large figure.
"By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars."
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