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  • 41run into — verb 1. be beset by (Freq. 6) The project ran into numerous financial difficulties • Syn: ↑encounter • Hypernyms: ↑be • Verb Frames: Something s something …

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  • 42run — v 1. dash, dart, bolt, tear, tear along, bowl along, make time, cover ground, make strides or rapid strides; sprint, fly, flit, whiz, whisk; zoom, zip, career, rip, scour, scud, scorch, burn up the road, outstrip the wind, race like the wind, go… …

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  • 43across — [[t]əkrɒ̱s, AM əkrɔ͟ːs[/t]] ♦ (In addition to the uses shown below, across is used in phrasal verbs such as come across , get across , and put across .) 1) PREP If someone or something goes across a place or a boundary, they go from one side of… …

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  • 44run into — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To collide with] Syn. bump into, crash, have a collision; see crash 4 , hit 2 . 2. [To encounter] Syn. come across, see, bump into*; see find 1 , meet 6 . 3. [To blend with] Syn. mingle, combine with, osmose; see merge , mix …

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  • 45run — I [[t]rʌn[/t]] v. ran, run, run•ning, n. adj. 1) to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground 2) to move or pass quickly 3) to depart… …

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  • 46run — v. & n. v. (running; past ran; past part. run) 1 intr. go with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time. 2 intr. flee, abscond. 3 intr. go or travel hurriedly, briefly, etc. 4 intr. a advance by… …

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  • 47run — verb (runs, running, ran ran; past participle run) 1》 move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time.     ↘enter or be entered in a race.     ↘(of hounds) chase or hunt their quarry.     ↘(of a… …

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  • 48across — /euh kraws , euh kros /, prep. 1. from one side to the other of: a bridge across a river. 2. on or to the other side of; beyond: across the sea. 3. into contact with; into the presence of, usually by accident: to come across an old friend; to run …

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  • 49run — {{11}}run (n.) spell of running, mid 15c. (earlier ren, late 14c.), from RUN (Cf. run) (v.). Sense of small stream first recorded 1580s, mostly Northern English dialect and Amer.Eng. Meaning series or rush of demands on a bank, etc. is first… …

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  • 50run into — I. bump, crash into    My car slid on the ice and I ran into a mail box knocked it down. II. meet by chance, bump into, run across    Did you run into anyone you know? See any old friends? …

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