verb
- Be beset by.
- usage: "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
- synonyms: encounter
- Collide violently with an obstacle.
- usage: "I ran into the telephone pole"
- synonyms: bump into, jar against, butt against, knock against
- Hit against; come into sudden contact with.
- usage: "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
- synonyms: hit, strike, impinge on, collide with
- Come together.
- usage: "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again"
- synonyms: meet, encounter, run across, come across, see
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