Definition of "run into"

run into

verb
third-person singular simple present runs into, present participle running into, simple past ran into, past participle run into
1. (intransitive but with prepositional object, literally) To enter by running.
2. (intransitive but with prepositional object) To collide with.
3. (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to collide with.
4. (intransitive but with prepositional object, by extension) To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively).
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  Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
  1964 July, “Tokaido line trouble”, in Modern Railways, page 52
5. (intransitive but with prepositional object, dated, of flowing water) To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
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  Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, now Urumea, runs into the sea.
  1849, Charles Anthon, A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Harper & Brothers, Publishers (1871), page 58
6. (intransitive but with prepositional object) To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
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  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.
  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, page 189
7. (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to blend into.
8. To reach a large figure.

Definition of "run into"

run into

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