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fallen in with

fallen in with is the past participle of fall in with.

Meaning of fall in with

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.
  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.

Questions about fallen in with

What is fallen in with the past participle of?
Fallen in with is the past participle of fall in with.

Words near fallen in with in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fallen in with (page history and authors); fall in with (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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