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run across
verb
come together (Freq. 2)
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I'll probably see you at the meeting

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How nice to see you again!

• Syn: ↑meet, ↑run into, ↑encounter, ↑come across, ↑see
• Derivationally related forms: ↑encounter (for: ↑encounter), ↑meeting (for: ↑meet)
• Hyponyms: ↑intersect, ↑cross
• Verb Group: ↑meet, ↑gather, ↑assemble, ↑forgather, ↑foregather
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

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[verb]
meet, bump into, come across, encounter, run into

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MEET (BY CHANCE), come across, run into, chance on, stumble on, happen on; informal bump into.
→ run

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phrasal
: to meet with or discover by chance

years later I ran across him in a bar in Paris

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run across
To come upon by accident
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Main Entry: ↑run

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ˌrun a ˈcross [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they run across he/she/it runs across present participle running across past tense ran across past participle run across] phrasal verb
to find something or to meet someone by chance

I ran across the letter while I was tidying the drawers.

Thesaurus: to find something or someonesynonym to meet, or to introduce peoplesynonym
Main entry: run

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meet or find by chance

I just thought you might have run across him before

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run across [phrasal verb]
run across (someone or something) : to meet (someone) or find (something) by chance

I ran across [=ran into] an old roommate of mine today.

I ran across some old photos from when I was a kid.

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Main Entry: ↑run

Useful english dictionary. 2012.