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stumbling across

stumbling across is the present participle and gerund 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 stumbling across

What is stumbling across the present participle and gerund of?
Stumbling across is the present participle and gerund of stumble across.

Words near stumbling across in the dictionary

  1. stumbleth
  2. stumblier
  3. stumbliest
  4. stumblin'
  5. stumbling
  6. stumbling across
  7. stumbling against
  8. stumbling block
  9. stumbling blocke
  10. stumbling blocks
  11. stumbling into

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