run into

Verb

 * 1)  To enter by running.
 * He ran into the building.
 * 1)  To collide with.
 * He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.
 * 1)  To cause to collide with.
 * He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
 * 1)  To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively).
 * 2)  To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
 * 3) * 1849,, A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Harper &amp; Brothers, Publishers (1871), page 58,
 * Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, now Urumea, runs into the sea.
 * 1)  To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
 * 2) * 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, ISBN 0-7914-5824-5, page 189,
 * 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.
 * 1)  To cause to blend into.
 * You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
 * 1) To reach a large figure.
 * By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.
 * You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
 * 1) To reach a large figure.
 * By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.

Usage notes

 * In all senses, any prepositional object pronoun must follow the word, never precede it. In most intransitive senses, it is awkward or impossible for an adverb (or any other word or phrase) to appear between and.

Translations

 * Russian: ,


 * Norwegian: kjøre på en
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:, jemandem über den Weg laufen
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: støte på,
 * Nynorsk: støyte på, treffe
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: encontrarse con, toparse con
 * Swedish: