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RUN INTO
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hit against; come into sudden contact with
Example:
He struck the table with his elbow
Synonyms:
collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "run into" is one way to...):
touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)
Verb group:
strike (deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run into"):
stub (strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object)
ping (hit with a pinging noise)
bang; spang (leap, jerk, bang)
rear-end (collide with the rear end of)
broadside (collide with the broad side of)
connect (land on or hit solidly)
spat (strike with a sound like that of falling rain)
thud (strike with a dull sound)
bottom (strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom)
bottom out (hit the ground)
bump; knock (knock against with force or violence)
bump into; butt against; jar against; knock against; run into (collide violently with an obstacle)
clash; collide (crash together with violent impact)
glance (hit at an angle)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The car run intos the tree
Sense 2
Meaning:
Collide violently with an obstacle
Example:
I ran into the telephone pole
Synonyms:
bump into; butt against; jar against; knock against; run into
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "run into" is one way to...):
collide with; hit; impinge on; run into; strike (hit against; come into sudden contact with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come together
Example:
How nice to see you again!
Synonyms:
come across; encounter; meet; run across; run into; see
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Verb group:
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run into"):
cross; intersect (meet at a point)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Be beset by
Example:
The project ran into numerous financial difficulties
Synonyms:
encounter; run into
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "run into" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Add this up over billions of leaves in very sunlit, leafy places, especially the tropics, and it means there is a bunch more soil moisture stored up underground, so much so that climate models predict rainfall events will saturate the ground and more rain will run into rivers.
(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)
Amy followed, but she poked her hands out stiffly before her, and jerked herself along as if she went by machinery, and her Ow! was more suggestive of pins being run into her than of fear and anguish.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Shouldst have crozier for staff and mitre for cap. Well, well, for your sake I will forgive the Socman and take vengeance on none but on my own wilful self who must needs run into danger's path.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Alternatively, you may run into an old friend you’ve not seen since college, right out of the blue.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Then, Betsey, my dear, run into the kitchen and see if Rebecca has put the water on; and tell her to bring in the tea-things as soon as she can.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
This gained upon me as we went along; so that the nearer we drew, the more familiar the objects became that we passed, the more excited I was to get there, and to run into her arms.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The huntsman drew off the wolf’s skin and went home with it; the grandmother ate the cake and drank the wine which Red-Cap had brought, and revived, but Red-Cap thought to herself: As long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Mercury has a way of bringing the past back to life in the present, so you may randomly run into a good friend you were once close to, and enjoy catching up when you see each other.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
