runinto (third-person singular simple presentruns into,present participlerunning into,simple pastran into,past participlerun into)
- (intransitive but with prepositional object, literally) Toenter byrunning.
Heran into the building.
1957 August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page568:Here we were nearly 8 min. early, and was now a matter of spinning out time, as indeed we did—losing 3 min. from Penrith to Carlisle!—in order not torun into Carlisle more than 5 min. early.
- (intransitive but with prepositional object) Tocollide with.
He lost control of the vehicle andran into a tree.
I've sustained somefront-end damage afterrunning into a pothole.
1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, inRailway Magazine, page603:A "passenger/goods" cock is provided in each cab, by which, when placed in the "goods" position, the normal proportional brake application is slowed down. This is for use when hauling an unbraked or partially braked train, and prevents the unbraked stock fromrunning into the locomotive or braked portion of the train with violence.
- (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to collide with.
He lost control of the vehicle andran itinto a tree.
- (intransitive but with prepositional object, by extension) To unexpectedlyencounter ormeet someone or something (literally or figuratively).
Iran into your cousin the other day.
Everything was going according to plan until weran into the legal problems.
1964 July, “Tokaido line trouble”, inModern Railways, page52:Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, hasrun into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
- (intransitive but with prepositional object, dated, of flowing water) Toreach, toflow into (a body of water).
- 1849,Charles Anthon,A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges,[1] Harper & Brothers, Publishers (1871),page 58,
- Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, nowUrumea,runs into the sea.
- (intransitive but with prepositional object) Toblend into; to befollowed by oradjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
- 2003, Julie M. Crandall and Mary Helen Brown, "The Millennium Waltz: A Story in Three-Quarter Time", Chapter 18 in Robin Patric Clair (ed.),Expressions of Ethnography: Novel Approaches to Qualitative Methods, SUNY Press,→ISBN, page 189,
- Of course, a show might start at a certain time, and one must place bets at the sports book at the right time, but for the most part, dayruns into night and nightruns into day without notice or comment.
- (transitive and with prepositional object) To cause to blend into.
You can use the paintbrush this way torun the colorsinto each other.
- Toreach a large figure.
By the end, the cost of the projectran into the millions of dollars.
- In all senses, any prepositional object pronoun must follow the wordinto, never precede it. In most intransitive senses, it is awkward or impossible for an adverb (or any other word or phrase) to appear betweenrun andinto.
to collide with
—see alsocrashto cause to collide with
—see alsocrash
