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[ verb ] be beset by
Synonyms Examples "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties" Used in print (James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)Here again we run_into the roadblock that Negroes do not like to be designated as Negroes in the press . (Gibson Winter, The Suburban Captivity of the...)In a rapidly changing society congregations will run_into difficulties repeatedly , since such nice balances of economic integration are hard to sustain in the metropolis for more_than a single generation . (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)Later , they 'd heard the rumble of thunder and_then , just outside Rockfork , they ran_into rain . If the bluff failed and they ran_into trouble , Brannon had told the others , they would withdraw - and he would come after his son another time . Related terms |
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[ verb ] collide violently with an obstacle
Synonyms Examples "I ran into the telephone pole" Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)At the top of the stairs he ran_into somebody standing there angrily in a dressing_gown . Related terms |
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[ verb ] hit against; come into sudden contact with
Synonyms Examples "The car hit a tree" "He struck the table with his elbow" Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)In_the_end we ran_into Communist artillery_fire . |
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