RUNINTO

run into

Verb

  1. To enter by running.
    He ran into the building.
  2. To collide with.
    He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.
  3. To cause to collide with.
    He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
  4. To encounter or meet unexpectedly (literally or figuratively).
    I ran into your cousin the other day.
    Everything was going according to plan until we ran into the legal problems.
  5. To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
  6. To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
  7. To cause to blend into.
    ''You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
  8. To reach a large figure.
    By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.


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