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stumbles across

stumbles across is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stumble across.

Meaning of stumble across

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.

Questions about stumbles across

What is stumbles across the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stumbles across is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stumble across.

Words near stumbles across in the dictionary

  1. stumbledrunk
  2. stumbledrunks
  3. stumbler
  4. stumblers
  5. stumbles
  6. stumbles across
  7. stumbles against
  8. stumbles into
  9. stumbles on
  10. stumbles onto
  11. stumbles upon

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