Synonyms for Runs up against:

• v.

  •meet (verb)
  • face,
  • make a meet,
  • see,
  • tussle,
  • contact,
  • rendezvous with,
  • HIT,
  • meet face to face,
  • touch shoulders,
  • get together,
  • rub eyeballs,
  • affront,
  • wrestle,
  • confront,
  • fall in with,
  • dig up,
  • luck,
  • grapple,
  • run up against,
  • light,
  • bump into,
  • tumble,
  • come across,
  • stumble,
  • strike,
  • greet,
  • run across,
  • experience,
  • come up against,
  • collide,
  • find,
  • brush against,
  • chance on,
  • clash,
  • accost,
  • cross,
  • engage,
  • run into,
  • front,
  • encounter,
  • salute.
  •taste (verb)
  • know,
  • appreciate,
  • be exposed to,
  • feel,
  • savor,
  • have knowledge of,
  • meet with,
  • partake of,
  • undergo,
  • perceive.

Antonyms for Runs up against:

• v.

  • meet
    dodge, disjoin, yield, avoid, disconnect, evade, lose, cancel, divide, separate, let go, surrender, release, shun, miss.
  • taste
    misinterpret, misunderstand, refrain, abstain.