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stumble across

stumble across verb: to discover or find (something) by accident.

Verb

stumble across (third-person singular simple present stumbles across, present participle stumbling across, simple past and past participle stumbled across)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) To meet (somebody) by chance.

stumble across meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

stumble across in Tamil

எதிர்பாராமல் சந்தி, கண்டுபிடி, எதிர்பாராமல் பார்

stumble across in Malayalam

chance on, come across, come upon
യാദൃച്ഛികമായി കണ്ടെത്തുക, ആകസ്മികമായി കണ്ടുമുട്ടുക, അവിചാരിതമായി കണ്ടെത്തുക, യദൃച്ഛയാ കൂട്ടിമുട്ടുക, യാദൃച്ഛികമായി കാര്യസിദ്ധിയുണ്ടാകുക, കൂട്ടിമുട്ടുവാൻ ഇടയാകുക

Synonyms of stumble across

Forms of stumble across

third-person singular presentstumbles across
present participlestumbling across
past participlestumbled across
paststumbled across

Questions about stumble across

What does stumble across mean?
Stumble across means to discover or find (something) by accident.
What is stumble across in Tamil?
Stumble across in Tamil is எதிர்பாராமல் சந்தி, கண்டுபிடி, எதிர்பாராமல் பார். See Stumble across meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stumble across?
Stumble across is a verb.
What is the past tense of stumble across?
The past tense of stumble across is stumbled across.

Words near stumble across in the dictionary

  1. Stultzes
  2. stum
  3. Stumbaugh
  4. Stumbaughs
  5. stumble
  6. stumble across
  7. stumble against
  8. stumble into
  9. stumble on
  10. stumble onto
  11. stumble upon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stumble across (page history and authors); stumble across (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stumble across (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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