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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bump into en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tuː/ (UK)
  • /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tə/ (unstressed) before consonants
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tu/ (US)
  • /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tʊ/ (before-vowel, unstressed)

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, literally) To collide with.
    • Luke staggered blindly down the street, almost bumping into an old woman in black with a shawl drawn close about her head and shoulders[…] 2010, Anne Baker, Goodbye Liverpool:
    • Bethany squeaks a barely audible, “Yes,” grabs her purse, and rushes out of the restaurant, tripping over a chair and bumping into another customer on the way. 2015, Caroline Fardig, That Old Black Magic, Caroline Fardig, →ISBN:
    • He bumped into the wall. I guess that's a risk you take when you read while walking.
  2. (literally, transitive) To cause (a thing) to collide with.
    • The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To meet by chance.
    • We bumped into each other at the library yesterday.
    • “[...] Isaac! You’re being conscripted.” Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. “You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?” “I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again.” 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bumps into Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bumping into Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bumped into Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bumped into Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

bump-in

Synonyms

run into

Translations (4)

pl wpaść na (Translations) · es hacerse el encontradizo (Translations) · pl wpadać na (Translations) · es hacerse encontradizo (Translations)