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• stumble — stumble, trip, blunder, lurch, flounder, lumber, galumph, lollop, bumble can mean to move unsteadily, clumsily, or with defective equilibrium (as in walking, in doing, or in proceeding). Stumble, trip, blunder, lurch, and flounder as applied to… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• stumble — [stum′bəl] vi. stumbled, stumbling [ME stumblen < Scand, as in Norw dial. stumba, ON stumra < IE base * stem , to bump against, hamper > STAMMER, Ger stumm, Du stom, mute] 1. to trip or miss one s step in walking, running, etc. 2. to… …   English World dictionary

• 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• stumble — [v1] slip, stagger blunder, bumble, careen, err, fall, fall down, falter, flounder, hesitate, limp, lose balance, lumber, lurch, muddle, pitch, reel, shuffle, stammer, swing, tilt, topple, totter, trip, wallow, waver, wobble; concepts 101,181… …   New thesaurus

• stumble — stum|ble [ˈstʌmbəl] v [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from a [i]Scandinavian language] 1.) to hit your foot against something or put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running, so that you almost fall = ↑trip ▪ In her hurry she… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• stumble — stumbler, n. stumblingly, adv. /stum beuhl/, v., stumbled, stumbling, n. v.i. 1. to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip. 2. to walk or go unsteadily: to stumble down a dark passage. 3. to… …   Universalium

• stumble — verb (I) 1 to hit your foot against something or put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running, so that you almost fall: In her hurry she stumbled and spilled the milk all over the floor. (+ over/on): Vic stumbled over the step as …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• stumble upon — Synonyms and related words: alight upon, arrive at, arrive upon, blunder upon, bump into, chance upon, come across, come at, come on, come up against, come upon, discover serendipitously, encounter, fall in with, fall upon, get at, happen upon,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• stumble — [c]/ˈstʌmbəl / (say stumbuhl) verb (stumbled, stumbling) –verb (i) 1. to strike the foot against something in walking, running, etc., so as to stagger or fall; trip. 2. to walk or go unsteadily. 3. to make a slip, mistake, or blunder, especially… …  

• stumble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. trip, stub one s toe; hobble, stagger, lumber; blunder, flounder, stammer; err, slip, backslide. See descent, agitation, error, stammering. stumbling block II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To move in a… …   English dictionary for students

• stumble — v 1. trip, fall, fall down, fall flat on one s face, tumble, take a spill, Inf. take a header, Inf. come a cropper; stagger, lurch, pitch, careen, Brit. Dial. stoit. 2. err, make a mistake, blunder, bungle, botch, muff, flub, fumble, Inf. slip up …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder