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run afoul of

run afoul of verb: to become entangled in; to run aground on.

Verb

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

  1. To become entangled in; to run aground on.
  2. (idiomatic) To contravene.
    • When quoting others, take care not to run afoul of copyright rules.
    • Facebook ran afoul of Apple because it used this system to distribute its data-collection app to consumers outside the company, which isn’t allowed.2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2019

run afoul of meaning in Bengali

run afoul of in Bengali

কোনো কিছুতে জড়িয়ে পড়া, লঙ্ঘন করা

Forms of run afoul of

third-person singular presentruns afoul of
present participlerunning afoul of
pastran afoul of
past participlerun afoul of

Questions about run afoul of

What does run afoul of mean?
Run afoul of means to become entangled in; to run aground on.
What is run afoul of in Bengali?
Run afoul of in Bengali is কোনো কিছুতে জড়িয়ে পড়া, লঙ্ঘন করা. See Run afoul of meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is run afoul of?
Run afoul of is a verb.
What is the past tense of run afoul of?
The past tense of run afoul of is ran afoul of.

Words near run afoul of in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: run afoul of (page history and authors); run afoul of (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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