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Definition of Bump into
1. Verb. Collide violently with an obstacle. "I ran into the telephone pole"
Generic synonyms: Collide With, Hit, Impinge On, Run Into, Strike
Definition of Bump into
1. Verb. (literally intransitive) To collide with. ¹
2. Verb. (literally transitive) To cause (a thing) to collide with. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To meet by chance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bump Into
Literary usage of Bump into
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"They bump into us. They are the guideboard knocks that point us to the higher
pathway. You were bumped yesterday or years ago. Maybe the wound has not yet ..."
2. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"To bump into a wooden Indian was to bump into good luck, a hundred times a week.
No wonder I was happy most of the time. ..."
3. Transcendence of the Western Mind: Physics, Metaphysics, and Life on Earth by Samuel C. Avery (2003)
"The “box” works because it explains everything that we experience. I bump into
things in space because they are there waiting for me to bump into them. ..."
4. Successful Teaching in Rural Schools by Marvin Summers Pittman (1922)
"It is my task to do the steering so that they will bump into some good problems.
... After we bump into one of these problems, we take it as a tentative one ..."
5. Energy by Katy Allen (2002)
"When molecules bump into each other, heat energy is transferred from the ...
They in turn bump into other slower-moving molecules and speed them up. ..."
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