Antonyms for run across

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ruhn

Phonetic Transcription : rʌn

Definition of run across

Origin : the modern verb is a merger of two related Old English words, in both of which the first letters sometimes switched places. The first is intransitive rinnan, irnan "to run, flow, run together" (past tense ran, past participle runnen), cognate with (cf. Middle Dutch runnen, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rinnan, German rinnen "to flow, run").
The second is Old English transitive weak verb ærnan, earnan "ride, run to, reach, gain by running" (probably a metathesis of *rennan), from Proto-Germanic *rannjanan, causative of the root *ren- "to run." This is cognate with Old Saxon renian, Old High German rennen, German rennen, Gothic rannjan.
Both are from PIE *ri-ne-a-, nasalized form of root *reie- "to flow, run" (see Rhine).
Of streams, etc., from c.1200; of machinery, from 1560s. Meaning "be in charge of" is first attested 1861, originally American English. Meaning "seek office in an election" is from 1826, American English. Phrase run for it "take flight" is attested from 1640s. Many figurative uses are from horseracing or hunting (e.g. to run (something) into the ground, 1836, American English).
To run across "meet" is attested from 1855, American English. To run short "exhaust one's supply" is from 1752; to run out of in the same sense is from 1713. To run around with "consort with" is from 1887. Run away "flee in the face of danger" is from late 14c. To run late is from 1954.

As in meet : verb happen on
As in stumble : verb happen upon
As in bump into : verb happen upon
As in encounter : verb happen upon
As in find : verb catch sight of, lay hands on

Example sentences :

The partridge has ceased to run across the too-frequented path.
Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'll just run across and give him a hand, and that'll bring him in the sooner.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

Could we but run across them, Clarke, it would be a great and grand thing.'
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

With your leave, sir, I'll run across the street to fetch some.
Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth

She's the sharpest buyer I ever run across on my trips down here.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

He'll run across a new name somewhere—Aristotle, for instance.
Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer

He had run across the plateau; now the nailed boots were ringing on rock.
Extract from : « The Princess Virginia » by C. N. Williamson

A quick cross-light, like a shiver, had run across her eyes.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

Wouldn't it be fun if we'd run across someone else this time?
Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther

The policeman will be sure to run across him and send him around here.
Extract from : « Jolly Sally Pendleton » by Laura Jean Libbey

Synonyms for run across

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