Usually means: Encounter unexpectedly or by chance.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. run across: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. run across: Merriam-Webster
  3. run across: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. run across: Collins English Dictionary
  5. run across: Vocabulary.com
  6. run across: Wiktionary
  7. run across: Dictionary.com
  8. run across: Rhymezone
  9. run across: FreeDictionary.org
  10. run across: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. run across: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run across: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run across: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. run across: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (run across)

▸ verb:  To cross by running.
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To find or discover by chance; to come across.

Similar:
encounter, meet, see, come across, foregather, forgather, ran into, run over, run into, transverse, more...

Opposite:
avoid, shun, evade, elude

Types:
sprint, jog, dash, gallop, bolt, more...

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Similar:
encounter, meet, see, come across, foregather, forgather, ran into, run over, run into, transverse, more...

Opposite:
avoid, shun, evade, elude

Types:
sprint, jog, dash, gallop, bolt, more...



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