run into sth
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS)
If you run into problems, you begin to experience them:
We ran into bad weather/debt/trouble.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- sample
- seat
- sense
- undergo
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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(REACH AN AMOUNT)
to reach a particular cost or amount, as a total:
The repairs will probably run into thousands of dollars.
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Numbering & counting
- absolute value
- cash
- cash up
- count
- count sth out
- counter
- decimal
- decimalization
- headcount
- innumerate
- modulus
- number
- number line
- numerate
- pagination
- reckon
- reckon sth in
- recount 1
- run
- tot sth up
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