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Definition of Stumble

1. Noun. An unsteady uneven gait.

2. Verb. Walk unsteadily. "Sam and Sue stumble"; "The drunk man stumbled about"

3. Noun. An unintentional but embarrassing blunder. "Confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

4. Verb. Miss a step and fall or nearly fall. "Sam and Sue stumble"; "She stumbled over the tree root"

5. Verb. Encounter by chance. "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

6. Verb. Make an error. "She slipped up and revealed the name"

Definition of Stumble

1. 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.

2. v. t. To cause to stumble or trip.

3. n. A trip in walking or running.

Definition of Stumble

1. Noun. a fall, trip or substantial misstep ¹

2. Noun. an error or blunder ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to trip or fall ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) to make a mistake or have trouble ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stumble

1. to miss one's step in walking or running [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stumble

stulps stultification stultifications stultified stultifier stultifiers stultifies stultify stultifying stultifyingly

stultiloquence stultiloquies stultiloquy stulty stum stumble (current term) stumble across stumble against stumble on stumble upon

stumblebum stumblebums stumbled stumbler stumblers stumbles stumblest stumbleth stumblier stumbling

Literary usage of Stumble

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Minor Prophets: With a Commentary Explanatory and Practical and by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1885)
"Thev stumble at God Himself, at His All-Holy Being, Three and One ; they stumble at His attributes; they stumble at ..."

2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"All who stumble at the light are without, and are not come to repentance, and so all who stumble at the light, stumble at the door, the door is known by the ..."

3. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two 47 And if ..."

4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And the saints believed in the light, and they abode not in darkness, which unbelievers do, and stumble, which the others do not. P. And he saith, ..."

5. Arabic Proverbs: Or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by John Lewis Burckhardt (1875)
"... which the driver caused to stumble and fall, that he might obtain a sight of the fair one. ^^Lfc-jl used in the Egyptian dialect for <J±j or " to slip, ..."

6. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... be subject to stumble so frequently, and in Danger of ^jso. falling into Displeasure, do what I could. ..."

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