RUN INTO


Meaning of RUN INTO in English

phrasal

1.

a. : to change or transform into : become

reverence for law and prescription … which runs sometimes into pedantry — T.B.Macaulay

b. : to merge with

little lakes that all run into one another

a dreamy state in which one day seemed to run into another

c. : to mount up to

keeping a boat like that one runs into money

his yearly income often runs into six figures

2.

a. : to collide with

veered off the road and ran into a telephone pole

b. : encounter , meet

ran into an old classmate

run into difficulties

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.