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tumbles on

tumbles on is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 tumbles on

What is tumbles on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tumbles on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tumble on.

Words near tumbles on in the dictionary

  1. tumblersful
  2. tumbles
  3. tumbles down
  4. tumbles home
  5. tumbles in
  6. tumbles on
  7. tumbles to
  8. tumbles together
  9. tumbles up
  10. tumbleset
  11. tumblesets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumbles 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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