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ran up against

ran up against is the simple past of run up against.

Meaning of run up against

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To begin to encounter problems with (someone or something).
    • The latest model has run up against the limits of its technical capacity.

Questions about ran up against

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

Words near ran up against in the dictionary

  1. ran to ground
  2. ran to the ground
  3. ran to the hills
  4. ran to waste
  5. ran up
  6. ran up against
  7. ran up in
  8. ran up in it
  9. ran up on
  10. ran wild
  11. ran with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ran up against (page history and authors); run up 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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