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ran against

ran against is the simple past of run against.

Meaning of run against

Verb

run against (third-person singular simple present runs against, present participle running against, simple past ran against, past participle run against)

  1. (literally, transitive) To compete with (someone) in an election.
    • I don't want to run against him for the governorship.
  2. (transitive) To negatively effect (someone or something); to experience a conflict regarding (something); to run up against (something).
    • The game is running against my team.

Questions about ran against

What is ran against the simple past of?
Ran against is the simple past of run against.

Words near ran against in the dictionary

  1. ran about with
  2. ran across
  3. ran adrift
  4. ran afoul of
  5. ran after
  6. ran against
  7. ran aground
  8. ran ahead
  9. ran along
  10. ran amok
  11. ran amuck

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ran against (page history and authors); run against (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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