RUN ACROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run across mean? 

• RUN ACROSS (verb)
  The verb RUN ACROSS has 1 sense:

1. come together

  Familiarity information: RUN ACROSS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN ACROSS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come together

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come across; encounter; meet; run across; run into; see

Context example:

How nice to see you again!

Verb group:

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "run across"):

cross; intersect (meet at a point)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

But One Ear broke into a run across the snow, his traces trailing behind him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“What else did you run across?” I asked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The two great streets, which run across and divide it into four quarters, are five feet wide.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was much moonshine; and as I looked I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew-tree.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Oh! then, said I, I must run across, I am sure Miss Woodhouse will allow me just to run across and entreat her to come in; my mother will be so very happy to see her—and now we are such a nice party, she cannot refuse.—'Aye, pray do,' said Mr. Frank Churchill, 'Miss Woodhouse's opinion of the instrument will be worth having.'—But, said I, I shall be more sure of succeeding if one of you will go with me.—'Oh,' said he, 'wait half a minute, till I have finished my job;'—For, would you believe it, Miss Woodhouse, there he is, in the most obliging manner in the world, fastening in the rivet of my mother's spectacles.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My dear Miss Woodhouse, said the latter, I am just run across to entreat the favour of you to come and sit down with us a little while, and give us your opinion of our new instrument; you and Miss Smith.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)