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View definitions for run across

run across

verb as in bump into

verb as in stumble

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I have been doing H for nine years on and off and have never run across this forum until now.

The car comes under the overpass, we boom up, the car pulls in, the train pulls, then run across to the train.

I've also seen a mother run across a room to prevent her child from signing to another deaf child.

Where would a justice be more likely than in Israel to run across an arguable precept.

It's the same as thinking every person I run across knows what I ate for breakfast or the color of my underwear.

If ships sail over the sea as fast as railways run across the land; if Helles is nearer Woolwich than Calais; then he is right.

Surely nothing can be more ungraceful than to see a lady shuffle and run across a street.

So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.

I wish I could run across and see you, but it will be hard for me to get a fortnight just now like your cousin Massereene.

Anyways, it was plenty good enough for me; and wherever I run across it, it can have all of my custom every time.

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On this page you'll find 178 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run across, such as: come across, meet up with, run into, chance upon, encounter, and hit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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