About The Word Stumble
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Stumble Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Stumble?
[n] an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
[n] an unsteady uneven gait [v] make an error [v] miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root." [v] walk unsteadily [v] encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stumble: blunder | bumble | falter | hit | lurch | misstep | slip up | stagger | trip | trip | trip up Related Terms | Find terms related to Stumble: See Also | bloomer | blooper | blunder | boner | boo-boo | botch | bungle | come by | err | flub | foul-up | founder | fuckup | gait | mistake | move | slip | walk Stumble In Webster's Dictionary \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.
--Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
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. --1 John
ii. 10.
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. --Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose
stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart.
\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. --Milton. One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. --Locke. \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. --L'Estrange. |
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