other words for run across
- clash
- contact
- face
- find
- greet
- see
- accost
- affront
- collide
- confront
- cross
- encounter
- engage
- experience
- front
- grapple
- hit
- light
- luck
- salute
- strike
- stumble
- tumble
- tussle
- wrestle
- brush against
- bump into
- chance on
- come across
- come up against
- dig up
- fall in with
- get together
- make a meet
- meet face to face
- rendezvous with
- rub eyeballs
- run into
- run up against
- touch shoulders
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
By George, I'd hate to be one and run across you, young lady.
She said she had run across an old Californian friend and they had been having tea together and seeing the shops.
Clearly it was too risky to land and run across the fields; the dog would track the fugitives with the greatest ease.
Just the sort of place we wanted to run across, remarked George; and the celebrated Stormways luck still holds good, it seems.
He has no fear and he may run across you and bite you in the face.
In her bare feet, Claire had run across the room, looked desperately out of the window.
The 452poor wretch had run across the desert with his warning.
"You'll stay till we find out what right you've got to run across this field," the boy who had first spoken said decidedly.
Giraffe would surely have had plenty of time to run across some wayside cottage where they had a horse that could be hired.
It was evident that the paling had been run across the garden, which must have been very extensive.
opposites of run across
WORDS RELATED TO RUN ACROSS
- arrive at
- bring to light
- bump into
- chance upon
- collar
- come across
- come up with
- come upon
- corral
- descry
- detect
- dig up
- discern
- discover
- distinguish
- encounter
- espy
- expose
- fall in with
- ferret out
- happen upon
- hit upon
- identify
- lay fingers on
- light upon
- locate
- make out
- meet
- notice
- observe
- perceive
- pinpoint
- recognize
- recover
- run across
- run into
- scare up
- sight
- smoke out
- spot
- strike
- stumble upon
- track down
- trip on
- turn up
- uncover
- unearth