stumble across en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To discover or find (something) by accident.
This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.
2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36:
- (transitive) To meet (somebody) by chance.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stumbles across | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| stumbled across | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| stumbled across | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| stumbling across | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Synonyms
come across · stumble upon · stumble on · happen upon · come upon
Translations (11)
pl napotkać (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · ru натыкаться (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · de auf etwas stoßen (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · no snuble over (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl wpaść (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl wpadać (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl natykać się (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl natknąć się (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl natrafiać (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl natrafić (to come across by accident; to discover by accident) · pl napotykać (to come across by accident; to discover by accident)