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fall in with

fall in with verb: to join (a group of people).

Verb

fall in with (third-person singular simple present falls in with, present participle falling in with, simple past fell in with, past participle fallen in with)

  1. To join (a group of people).
    • He has fallen in with a bad lot.
    • I went on alone and in the course of the days I fell in with many persons, stupid persons, great persons, jaunty ones.1922, A. E. Coppard, “Marching to Zion”, in Adam & Eve & Pinch Me
  2. To meet with (something).
    • We had not sailed twelve hours before we fell in with a gale, which lasted several days, and we kept under close-reef-topsails and storm-staysails.1846, Frederick Marryat, “chapter 4”, in The Privateersman, or One Hundred Years Ago
  3. To accept, abide by (a set of generally agreed rules, or a suggestion).
    • It seemed like a good idea, so we fell in with it.

fall in with meaning in Malayalam

fall in with in Malayalam

join up with, get involved with, take up with
ഉൾപ്പെടുക, ചേരുക, കൂടിച്ചേരുക, കൂട്ടുചേരുക, കണ്ടുമുട്ടാനിടയാകുക, കൂട്ടത്തിൽ പെടുക
go along with, comply with, support
സമ്മതിക്കുക, സമ്മതിച്ചുകൊടുക്കുക, വഴിപ്പെടുക, അനുസരിക്കുക, യോജിക്കുക, ഒത്തുപോവുക

Forms of fall in with

third-person singular presentfalls in with
present participlefalling in with
pastfell in with
past participlefallen in with

Questions about fall in with

What does fall in with mean?
Fall in with means to join (a group of people).
What is fall in with in Malayalam?
Fall in with in Malayalam is ഉൾപ്പെടുക, ചേരുക, കൂടിച്ചേരുക. See Fall in with meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fall in with?
Fall in with is a verb.
What is the past tense of fall in with?
The past tense of fall in with is fell in with.

Words near fall in with in the dictionary

  1. fall ill
  2. fall in
  3. fall in line
  4. fall in love
  5. fall in lust
  6. fall in with
  7. fall into
  8. fall into a trap
  9. fall into oneself
  10. fall into place
  11. fall into someone's hands

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fall in with (page history and authors); fall in with (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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