run into

verb runs into · running into · ran into · run into

1. literally To enter by running. He ran into the building.
2. To collide with. He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.
3. To cause to collide with. He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
4. broadly To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively). I ran into your cousin the other day.
5. dated, of flowing water To reach, to flow into (a body of water). 1849, Charles Anthon, A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Harper & Brothers, Publishers (1871), page 58, Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, now Urumea, runs into the sea.
6. To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent 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
7. To cause to blend into. You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
8. To reach a large figure. By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.
9. transitive To amount to. debts running into millions