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tumbling on

tumbling on is the present participle and gerund 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 tumbling on

What is tumbling on the present participle and gerund of?
Tumbling on is the present participle and gerund of tumble on.

Words near tumbling on in the dictionary

  1. tumbling in
  2. tumbling mat
  3. tumbling mats
  4. tumbling mill
  5. tumbling mills
  6. tumbling on
  7. tumbling to
  8. tumbling together
  9. tumbling up
  10. tumblingly
  11. tumblings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumbling 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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