'Stumble' definitions:
Definition of 'stumble'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep]
verb
verb
Miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble, trip]
verb
Encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: stumble, hit]
verb
Definition of 'Stumble'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- There stumble steeds strong and down go all. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. --Prov. iv. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. [1913 Webster]
- He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. [1913 Webster]
- He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John ii. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. [1913 Webster]
- Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stumble'
From: GCIDE
- Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to stumble or trip. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. [1913 Webster]
- False and dazzling fires to stumble men. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stumble'
From: GCIDE
- Stumble \Stum"ble\, n.
- 1. A trip in walking or running. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. [1913 Webster]
- One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stumble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad job,
- balk,
- barge,
- be all thumbs,
- bevue,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- botch,
- breakdown,
- bumble,
- bump,
- bump into,
- bungle,
- butcher,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- chance,
- clump,
- clumsy performance,
- collapse,
- come a cropper,
- come across,
- come up against,
- comedown,
- commit a gaffe,
- crash,
- cropper,
- culbute,
- deflation,
- deviate,
- discover,
- dive,
- downfall,
- encounter,
- err,
- error,
- etourderie,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall into error,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- fall upon,
- false move,
- false step,
- falter,
- faux pas,
- find,
- flop,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- flub,
- fluff,
- foozle,
- forced landing,
- fumble,
- gag,
- gaucherie,
- get a cropper,
- go amiss,
- go astray,
- go awry,
- go wrong,
- halt,
- hash,
- have two minds,
- haw,
- header,
- hem,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hit,
- hit upon,
- hum,
- hum and haw,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- jib,
- labor,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- light,
- limp,
- list,
- loose thread,
- luck,
- lumber,
- lurch,
- mammer,
- mar,
- meet,
- mess,
- miscalculate,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- mistake,
- muck,
- muddle,
- muff,
- murder,
- nose dive,
- off day,
- omission,
- oversight,
- pause,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- play havoc with,
- plunge,
- pose,
- pratfall,
- reel,
- rock,
- roll,
- run across,
- sad work,
- scruple,
- seethe,
- shy,
- slip,
- slip up,
- slipup,
- smash,
- snapper,
- spill,
- spoil,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stagger,
- stammer,
- stick,
- stickle,
- strain,
- stray,
- struggle,
- stump,
- stutter,
- sway,
- swing,
- tailspin,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trip,
- tumble,
- turn turtle,
- volutation,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wander,
- waver,
- welter,
- wobble,
- wrong step