Run Into

Definition: Run Into

Run Into

Verb

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

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Run Into

Borrowing

Raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul; run into debt; (debt).

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Danger

Verb: be in danger; Adjective:; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur danger, encounter danger; Noun: run a risk; lay oneself open to; (liability); lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be between a rock and a hard place.

Debt

Verb: be in debt; Adjective: owe; incur a debt, contract a debt; Noun: run up a bill, run up a score, run up an account; go on tick; borrow; run into debt, get into debt, outrun the constable; run up debts, run up bills (spend).

Insertion

Verb: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Rashness

Verb: be rash; Adjective: stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger; play with fire, play with edge tools.

Crosswords: Run Into

You're the one that run into my trash! (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

Ok one Christmas morning, I wake up, I run into the living room and my mother says 'I just forgot'. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I was hoping I'd run into you. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

There's always a man faster on the draw than you are, and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man. (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; writing credit: George Scullin; Leon Uris)

He blew down their house and they had to find another joint so they run through the woods and they run into Goldilocks and she took them all in to live with her and there's nothin' wrong with that because she was a nice girl and they're old anyway. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

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What's all the excitement? : Fella an' his wife run into that telegraft pole ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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It was no wonder that they should pitch upon, and naturally run into that form of government, which from their infancy they had been all accustomed to; and which, by experience, they had found both easy and safe. (Second Treatise of Government)

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The characteristic of truth is never to run into excess.

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Business

Larger units run into the obstacle posed by the absence of the necessary cranes in Argentina. (references)

As previously noted, the implementation of the Competition Commission's report has run into legal difficulties. (references)

Vendors that contract directly for third party logistics or purchase from product agents or importers run into problems in offering competitive pricing. (references)

Economic History

Venezuela

The consortium has run into trouble recently due to low steel prices and the increased labor costs. (references)

Japan

It has become more common for small- and medium-sized Japanese trading companies to run into payments problems. (references)

Romania

Some foreign investors have run into labor problems when they have tried to trim staff in loss-making product lines. (references)

Political Economy

MEXICO

The proposed law has run into stiff resistance in Congress and passage is uncertain. (references)

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Expressions using "run into": run into a habit ♦ run into danger ♦ run into debt ♦ run into debts ♦ run into hundreds ♦ run into one another ♦ to run into ♦ To run into the ground. Additional references.

Albanian

përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, crash, dash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, splash, wash), ndesh (attend, bang against, barge, bump, come across, come round, cross, encounter, fall in with, fall over, fight, forgather, greet, happen on, hit, light, meet), has (come across, face, fall in with, meet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إلتقى مصادفة (come across, run across), ‏إصطدم (barge into, bump up against, clash, crash, impact, impinge, jostle, knock against smb., run down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срещам случайно (bump into, come across, fall in with, happen on, happen upon, meet up with, rencontre, rub up against, run across, run against), стигам до (reach, reach down, remount, touch), сблъсквам се с (cannon into, encounter, run down), вкарвам в (run in), натъквам се на (butt, come across, encounter, happen upon, meet with, run against, run up, run upon, strike, stumble across), навличам си (contract, incur, invite). (various references)

Chinese 

遇到 (to come across, to meet, to run into), 碰見 (to meet, to run into), �'� (to bump against, to bump into, to hit, to meet by accident, to run into, to strike). (various references)

Czech

narazit na (come across, come up against, encounter, strike, stumble). (various references)

Danish

produktionsforingsroerets ophaeng,som skrues fast paa det sidste produktionsforingsroer saettes ned sammen med installationsvaerktoej og betjeningsforingsroer og anbringes i det dertil indrettede samlingssted i toppen af boringen(klargoering boringen til (is run into the hole with the setting tools and running string and positioned in the receptacle provided for that purpose in the well head(well completion), screwed onto the last tubing, the tubing hanger), naar foerst boringerne er tilendebragt og afproevet,saettes produktionsforingsroeret helt ned i bunden og derefter tildaekkes borehullet med en boretop,det saakaldte juletrae,der er et saet ventiler beregnet til at kontrollere produktionen (an assembly of valves for controlling the rate of production, and the well is then capped with a flow head called a Christmas tree, once the well has been drilled and tested, the tubing is run into it), loebe ind i siden paa et skib (to ram into the side of a vessel, to run into the side of a vessel), instrumenter til elektrisk,akustisk og radioaktiv logging nedsaettes i borehullet paa et mangelederkabel fra spillet paa en speciel uafhaengig logging-enhed (electric sonic and radioactive logging tools are run into the hole on a multi-core cable, from the winch of a special self-contained logging unit). (various references)

Dutch

botsen met (collide with), aanrijden (run), aanrýden (collide, run). (various references)

Esperanto

renversi veturile, puŝiĝi kun (collide with). (various references)

Finnish

tavata (catch, come across, come upon, encounter, happen upon, meet, see, spell, to meet), törmätä johonkin (crash into, hit against). (various references)

French

retrouver, rencontrer par hasard (run across), rencontrer (run into one another), tomber sur (run across), s'heurter � , s'heurter, s'élever � , atteindre (run across). (various references)

Frisian

oanride. (various references)

German

stoßen auf (bump into, come across, come up against, come upon, hit upon, lead into, light on, light upon, meet, meet with, to come across, to prod to), begegnen (combat, come across, confront, counter, encounter, face, happen, meet, oppose, resist, respond to, see, to encounter, to meet), aufprallen (collide with, hit, thud), auflaufen (accumulate, collide with, mount up, rise, run aground, strike, swell up), auffahren (ascend, bring up, dish up, drive against, drive into, drive to close behind, drive up, enter, flare up, fly into a rage, go up, move up, serve up, start, start up, to drive against, to start up), anfahren (approach, deliver, drive up, hit, jump at, jump on, pull up, put in at, round on, run down, sail into, shout at, snub, start up, stop at). (various references)

Greek 

συναντώ κατά τύχη (come across, come by, run across). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תקל (bump up against, come across, encounter, happen on, light upon, meet, run across), ל�"ת� �'ש ב- (cannon into, plump). (various references)

Hungarian

beleszalad (rencounter, to run against, to run into), összefut (to converge, to focus, to run against, to run into), átvált (switch, throw over, to convert, to shunt, to switch over). (various references)

Indonesian

amprokan, amprok (meet). (various references)

Italian

scontrarsi (clash, collide, crash, shock), incontrare per caso (run across), imbattersi (come across, meet up, slap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

走り込む (to run into), 行き�"たる (to come against, to deadlock, to hit, to light on, to run into, to strike into), 突き�"たる (to collide with, to run into), 突き刺さる (to pierce, to run into, to stick into), �"付ける (to hit and attack, to knock, to nail on, to run into, to strike hard), �"ち付ける (to hit and attack, to knock, to nail on, to run into, to strike hard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うちつける (to hit and attack, to knock, to nail on, to run into, to strike hard), ぶつける (to hit and attack, to knock, to nail on, to run into, to strike hard), つきささる (to pierce, to run into, to stick into), つきあたる (to collide with, to run into), いきあたる (to come against, to deadlock, to hit, to light on, to run into, to strike into), ゆきあたる (to come against, to deadlock, to hit, to light on, to run into, to strike into), はしり�"む (to run into). (various references)

Pig Latin

unray intoay

Portuguese

topar com (bump into, come across), incorrer em (incur, merit), encontrar por acaso (stumble), colidir (bump, bump into, cannon, clash, collide, conflict, crash, dash, impinge, strike), amontar em, afluir (flock, flood, flow), abalroar (collide with). (various references)

Quechua

tinkunakusqancheq (that we have run into each other). (various references)

Romanian

se expune pericolului (run into danger), face datorii (get into debt, run into debt). (various references)

Russian 

столкнуться, вбегать, наехать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utrčati (run in, rush in), natrčati (run in), naleteti (cannon, hit, ram, run in). (various references)

Spanish

tropezar (encounter, fall on, fall upon, happen on, light, trip over, trip up, walk in), topar (butt, come across, knock, knock into, push, thrust, walk in), dar contra (hit, knock against, ram, walk in), chocar con (cannon into, hit, impinge, walk in). (various references)

Swedish

försätta i. (various references)

Turkish

borca girmek (get into debt, incur debts, incur liabilities, run into debt), aşırı borca girmek (run into debt), çok borçlanmak (run into debt). (various references)

Turkmen 

зakyюmak (collide, come across). (various references)

Ukrainian

вливатися (debouch), впадати (debouch, disembogue, enter, fall into). (various references)

Welsh

bwrw yn erbyn (to run into, to strike against). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: intron, inturn, turnon, untorn.

-2 letters: intro, inurn, niton, nitro, rutin, union.

-3 letters: inro, into, iron, noir, nori, noun, riot, roti, rout, ruin, runt, tiro, tori, torn, tour, trio, turn, unit, unto.

-4 letters: inn, ion, nit, nor, not, nun, nut, ort, our, out, rin, rot, run, rut, tin, ton, tor, tui, tun, urn.

-5 letters: in, it.

+1 letter: neutrino, notturni, trunnion.

+2 letters: centurion, continuer, fortuning, intrusion, inundator, neutrinos, neutronic, nutrition, ruination, tonsuring, trouncing, trunnions, unrooting, urination.

+3 letters: centurions, construing, continuers, contouring, countering, counterion, enunciator, induration, insinuator, interunion, intrusions, inundators, inundatory, jointuring, neurotoxin, nitrofuran, nonroutine, numeration, nutritions, outburning, outearning, outgrinned, outranging, outranking, outringing, outrunning, outsnoring, quaternion, recounting, remounting, reunionist, ruinations, rumination, tourneying, truncation, unneurotic, unromantic, unthroning, urinations.