Bump into meaning
Bump into is a phrasal verb that means to meet an acquaintance by chance, without arranging it.
- Past simple
- bumped into
- Past participle
- bumped into
- -ing form
- bumping into
What bump into means
C1
To meet an acquaintance by chance, without arranging it
I bumped into my old teacher at the station.
Similar phrasal verbs
With into: get into, patch into, break into, let something into something, look into, make something into something, pull into, put something into something, read something into something, rip into.
Common questions
What does bump into mean?
To meet an acquaintance by chance, without arranging it.
What is the past tense of bump into?
Bumped into, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
