STUMBLE
\stˈʌmbə͡l], \stˈʌmbəl], \s_t_ˈʌ_m_b_əl]\
Definitions of STUMBLE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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walk unsteadily
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encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
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miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
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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"
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miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"
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walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
By Princeton University
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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.
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To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
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To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
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To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
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To cause to stumble or trip.
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Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
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A trip in walking or running.
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A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
By Oddity Software
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A trip in walking or running; failure or blunder.
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To trip or fall in walking; to walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner; to fall into error or crime; to come upon something by chance: with on, upon, or against.
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Stumblingly.
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Stumbler.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To strike the feet against something: to trip in walking: (fol. by upon) to light on by chance: to slide into crime or error.
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To cause to trip or stop: to puzzle.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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