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tumbled on

tumbled on is the simple past and past participle of tumble on.

Meaning of tumble on

Verb

tumble on (third-person singular simple present tumbles on, present participle tumbling on, simple past and past participle tumbled on)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To accidentally encounter (a person or situation).
    • “I’m luck to have fallen upon you, Kemp. You must help me. Fancy tumbling on you just now! I’m in a devilish scrape […]”1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 17”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 148

Questions about tumbled on

What is tumbled on the simple past and past participle of?
Tumbled on is the simple past and past participle of tumble on.

Words near tumbled on in the dictionary

  1. tumblebugs
  2. tumbled
  3. tumbled down
  4. tumbled home
  5. tumbled in
  6. tumbled on
  7. tumbled to
  8. tumbled together
  9. tumbled up
  10. tumbledown
  11. tumbledung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumbled on (page history and authors); tumble on (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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