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fell in with

fell in with is the simple past 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 fell in with

What is fell in with the simple past of?
Fell in with is the simple past of fall in with.

Words near fell in with in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fell 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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