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Definition of Run into

1. Verb. Be beset by. "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"

2. Verb. Collide violently with an obstacle. "I ran into the telephone pole"

3. Verb. Hit against; come into sudden contact with. "The car run intos the tree "; "He struck the table with his elbow"

4. Verb. Come together. "How nice to see you again!"

Definition of Run into

1. Verb. (intransitive but with prepositional object literally) To enter by running. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive but with prepositional object) To collide with. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to collide with. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive but with prepositional object by extension) To encounter or meet unexpectedly (literally or figuratively). ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive but with prepositional object dated of flowing water) To reach, to flow into (a body of water). ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive but with prepositional object) To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to blend into. ¹

8. Verb. To reach a large figure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Run Into

run circles round run counter run down run down the clock run dry run for run for it run for office run for one's money run for the hills

run for the roses run hot and cold run in run in the family run interference run into (current term) run into the ground run like a top run like the wind run low

run of house run of play run of the mill run off run off at the mouth run off with run on run on fumes run oneself ragged run out

Literary usage of Run into

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"12 —17 year a contract was let for the first Galveston Bay bridge, which was completed and trains were run into Galveston in 1860. The jetties at Galveston ..."

2. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"... the pain resulting from such consider- stood name, ation may be reckoned a pain of privation : as far as they are supposed to run into one j . . ... , ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"They nearly run into and mutually throw light upon each other. When the thing forbidden In the Fifth Amendment, namely: compelling a man to be a witness ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The roll or plug revolves at from 350 to 400 revolutions Thc pulp after being prepared in the beating engine is run into per minute, and requires a power to ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"By frequent repetition of this reproductive process ' the simple ideas of sensation run into clusters and combinations; and each of these will at last ..."

6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The blackish-looking product is then run into shallow tanks, ... When the operation is finished, the contents of the tub are run into an egg and blown ..."

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