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stumble into

stumble into verb: to begin a course of action by accident, while intending to do something else.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To begin a course of action by accident, while intending to do something else.
    • He stumbled into a firefighting career in his early 20s.

Forms of stumble into

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

Questions about stumble into

What does stumble into mean?
Stumble into means to begin a course of action by accident, while intending to do something else.
What part of speech is stumble into?
Stumble into is a verb.
What is the past tense of stumble into?
The past tense of stumble into is stumbled into.

Words near stumble into in the dictionary

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

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