stumble

[stum·ble]

To stumble means to nearly fall by tripping or missing a step. When you walk over uneven cobblestones, it’s easy to stumble, so please be careful.

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To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

Noun
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

Noun
an unsteady uneven gait

Verb
make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"

Verb
miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

Verb
walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

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Verb
encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

v. i.
To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

v. i.
To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

v. i.
To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

v. i.
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.

v. t.
To cause to stumble or trip.

v. t.
Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

n.
A trip in walking or running.

n.
A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

Stumble

Stum"ble , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling .] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.] 1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

There stumble steeds strong and down go all.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.

2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

He stumbled up the dark avenue.

3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.

4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.

Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.

Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake.

Stumble

Stum"ble, v. t. 1. To cause to stumble or trip. 2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

Stumble

Stum"ble, n. 1. A trip in walking or running. 2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

To cause to stumble or trip.

A trip in walking or running.

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Usage Examples

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

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Other Usage Examples

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.