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running up against

running up against is the present participle and gerund 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 running up against

What is running up against the present participle and gerund of?
Running up against is the present participle and gerund of run up against.

Words near running up against in the dictionary

  1. running track
  2. running tracks
  3. running trap
  4. running traps
  5. running up
  6. running up against
  7. running up in
  8. running up in it
  9. running up on
  10. running up the score
  11. running W

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running 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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