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stumbled into

stumbled into is the simple past and past participle of stumble into.

Meaning of stumble into

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.

Questions about stumbled into

What is stumbled into the simple past and past participle of?
Stumbled into is the simple past and past participle of stumble into.

Words near stumbled into in the dictionary

  1. stumblebum
  2. stumblebums
  3. stumbled
  4. stumbled across
  5. stumbled against
  6. stumbled into
  7. stumbled on
  8. stumbled onto
  9. stumbled upon
  10. stumbledrunk
  11. stumbledrunks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stumbled into (page history and authors); stumble into (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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