stumble on (English, verb)
expansion: stumble on (third-person singular simple present stumbles on, present participle stumbling on, simple past and past participle stumbled on)
Senses:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stumble, on.
glosses: To discover or find something by accident.
tags: figuratively
intransitive
raw_tags: with prepositional object
glosses: To meet somebody by chance.
tags: figuratively
intransitive
raw_tags: with prepositional object
glosses: To continue with difficulty in one's endeavours; to struggle on.
tags: figuratively
intransitive
with-on
raw_tags: as adverbial particle
Forms:
form: stumbles on
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stumbling on
tags: participle
present
form: stumbled on
tags: participle
past
form: stumbled on
tags: past