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chance upon

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  • verb transitive, idiomatic to find by chance

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  • verb find unexpectedly

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synonyms (21)

Words with the same meaning

  1. alight upon
  2. blunder upon
  3. bump into
  4. come across
  5. come on
  6. come up against
  7. come upon
  8. discover serendipitously
  9. encounter
  10. fall in with
  11. happen upon
  12. hit upon
  13. light upon
  14. meet up with
  15. meet with
  16. run across
  17. run into
  18. run up against
  19. stumble on
  20. stumble upon
  21. tumble on

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. find
  2. regain

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