run across

as inmeet
as instumble
as inbump into
as inencounter
as infind

Synonyms for run across

verb happen on

Antonyms for run across

Word Origin & History

the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").

The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.

Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).

Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).

To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.

Example Sentences forrun across

The partridge has ceased to run across the too-frequented path.

I'll just run across and give him a hand, and that'll bring him in the sooner.

Could we but run across them, Clarke, it would be a great and grand thing.'

With your leave, sir, I'll run across the street to fetch some.

She's the sharpest buyer I ever run across on my trips down here.

He'll run across a new name somewhere—Aristotle, for instance.

He had run across the plateau; now the nailed boots were ringing on rock.

A quick cross-light, like a shiver, had run across her eyes.

Wouldn't it be fun if we'd run across someone else this time?

The policeman will be sure to run across him and send him around here.

run across

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Antonyms for run across

encounter

encountered

encountering

encounters

find

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Synonyms for run across

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