"stumble across" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stumbles across",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbling across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbled across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbled across",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stumble across (third-person singular simple present stumbles across, present participle stumbling across, simple past and past participle stumbled across)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"across\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To discover or find (something) by accident."
      ],
      "id": "en-stumble_across-en-verb-vVQ33tlv",
      "links": [
        [
          "discover",
          "discover"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To discover or find (something) by accident."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "come across"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "come upon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "stumble on"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "stumble upon"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "to come across by accident; to discover by accident",
          "word": "snuble over"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 11",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "natykatʹsja",
          "sense": "to come across by accident; to discover by accident",
          "word": "натыкаться"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To meet (somebody) by chance."
      ],
      "id": "en-stumble_across-en-verb-RpolCnsL",
      "links": [
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To meet (somebody) by chance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stumble across"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"across\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stumbles across",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbling across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbled across",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stumbled across",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stumble across (third-person singular simple present stumbles across, present participle stumbling across, simple past and past participle stumbled across)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To discover or find (something) by accident."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discover",
          "discover"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To discover or find (something) by accident."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To meet (somebody) by chance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meet",
          "meet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To meet (somebody) by chance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "come across"
    },
    {
      "word": "come upon"
    },
    {
      "word": "stumble on"
    },
    {
      "word": "stumble upon"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to come across by accident; to discover by accident",
      "word": "snuble over"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "natykatʹsja",
      "sense": "to come across by accident; to discover by accident",
      "word": "натыкаться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stumble across"
}