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run against

run against verb: to compete with (someone) in an election.

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.
    • Her reforms ran against popular opinion.

run against meaning in Sanskrit

run against in Sanskrit

to run against or into, reach, attain
परी parī

Forms of run against

third-person singular presentruns against
present participlerunning against
pastran against
past participlerun against

Questions about run against

What does run against mean?
Run against means to compete with (someone) in an election.
What is run against in Sanskrit?
Run against in Sanskrit is परी (parī). See Run against meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is run against?
Run against is a verb.
What is the past tense of run against?
The past tense of run against is ran against.

Words near run against in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: run against (page history and authors); परी (Sanskrit) (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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