run into
verb- To enter by running. · He ran into the building.
- To collide with. · He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.· I've sustained some front-end damage after running into a pothole.
- To cause to collide with. · He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
- To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively). · I ran into your cousin the other day.· Everything was going according to plan until we ran into the legal problems.
- To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
- To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
- To cause to blend into. · You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
- To reach a large figure. · By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.
From the library
Toto had run into the crowd to bark at a kitten, and Dorothy at last found him.
He whimpers and cheeps all the night, trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room.
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