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Run into   /rən ɪntˈu/   Listen
Run into

verb
1.
Be beset by.  Synonym: encounter.
2.
Collide violently with an obstacle.  Synonyms: bump into, butt against, jar against, knock against.
3.
Hit against; come into sudden contact with.  Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, strike.  "He struck the table with his elbow"
4.
Come together.  Synonyms: come across, encounter, meet, run across, see.  "How nice to see you again!"






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"Run into" Quotes from Famous Books



... real truth of this, but ten times more, is as well known to every one, as the Sun shine at noon day; nevertheless we see them run into it with such an earnestness, that they are not to be counselled, or kept back from it, with the strength of Hercules; despising their golden liberty, for chains of ...
— The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) • A. Marsh

... glad he was assigned to the tubes. It was the one place on the ship where he'd be least likely to run into her. As a doctor and a courtesy passenger, she'd have complete run of the ship, but she'd hardly bother with the dangerous and unpleasant ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey

... it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. I whooped and listened. Away down there somewheres I hears a small whoop, and up comes my spirits. I went tearing after ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... his antagonist did not appear to be affected by his fire, would approach closer and endeavour to ram her. This was to be avoided, for the Scarabaeus was a much larger vessel than Repeller No. 1, and able to run into the latter and sink her by ...
— The Great War Syndicate • Frank Stockton

... strength is shown in the following case. In the summer of 1870, a single shell, while being rowed at full speed, with the current, on one of our principal rivers, was run into to the stone abutment of a bridge. The bow struck squarely on to obstacle, and such was the momentum of the mass that the oarsman was thrown directly through the flaring bow of the cockpit into the river. Witnesses of the accident ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop


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