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stumble English

Meaning stumble meaning

What does stumble mean?
Definitions in simple English

stumble Noun

— A stumble is a fall or trip. — A stumble is an error or blunder.

stumble Verb

— If you stumble, you trip or fall He stumbled up the dark avenue. He stumbled over a rock. — If you stumble, you make a mistake or have trouble. I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.

stumble

— verb walk unsteadily The drunk man stumbled about — verb miss a step and fall or nearly fall She stumbled over the tree root — verb encounter by chance I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant — verb (= slip up) make an error She slipped up and revealed the name — noun (= lurch) an unsteady uneven gait — noun (= trip, trip-up, misstep) 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

Synonyms stumble synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stumble?

stumble English » English

trip falter slip stagger fall down stammer misstep fall blunder totter stutter reel lurch trip-up trip up tumble trip over sway stub one’s toe stub mistake limp fault drop bumble tremble topple throw down stumbling stop up stop short spurn slip up plummet miss one’s footing make fall kick at hobble hit hesitate flounder find false step error discover delay collide catch on blooper wrinkle

Topics stumble topics

What do people use stumble to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speak poorly
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk with difficulty
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall

Conjugation stumble conjugation

How do you conjugate stumble?

stumble · verb

Examples stumble examples

How do I use stumble in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't stumble over the rock.

Movie subtitles

Did I stumble into something?
Only on one side. You don't want to stumble.
When the girl rose in the boat to come towards you, did she stumble about there?
Yeah, and a place where the whole town won't stumble over us as we work.
Three times today my footcloth horse did stumble. and started when he looked upon the Tower. as loath to bear me to the slaughterhouse.
Wake at the crack ofdawn, stumble over each other in search of goods stolen in the night.
Hey, you stumble-footed idiots!
Suppose we were lucky enough to stumble across 'em.
But I've been lucky enough to stumble on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree trunk and found the wheel.
Your scientists will stumble upon it as they have all the others. But the juvenile minds you possess will not comprehend its strength, until it's too late.
Mr. Constable, don't stumble. Don't fall.
Why did she have to stumble onto death so young? And all alone? And in the dark?
If one walks during the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.
Not quite big enough to fall through or if you stumble into it.
See Macky, that's how it works: the big things work and you stumble over the small things.
Supposing I consent to all this. and supposing even that Mr. Sande. doesn't one day take it in his head to blackmail you. what if some other party should get up here and stumble over your secret?
I came back here at that time. hoping to stumble on the trail of my past. but I failed then. and I've failed now.
But better be careful when you stumble near me again, doctor. my boys here got just a little nervous just then.
You'd stumble on his name, so leave that out.
Be a dirty shame if they was to stumble onto something. and we wasn't there to see what is was.
Yeah, they're startin' to stumble around down there, the poor, punch-drunk.
Suppose we were lucky enough to stumble across 'em. You don't think they'd give up without a fight?
We better pray that horse don't stumble.
Your scientists will stumble upon it as they have all the others.
I enter a deserted house and stumble across an old man, lying half-dead.
It was heavy and made him stumble.
If he finds out you have insomnia. he'll start looking for its cause and probably stumble on it.
Yeah, and left the mower where everybody could stumble over it, as usual.
And a place where the whole town won't stumble over us as we work. Mm.
But as soon as you check his family history, you stumble upon an uncle who ended up in an asylum or a grandfather who died of alcohol poisoning.
Look at him stumble along.
The Administration office is there. We might stumble on someone.
And don't stumble on the way out, dearie.
When I happened to stumble across her, she was more dead than alive.

News and current affairs

Draghi has good reason to insist that, in the absence of significant national action, the eurozone might well stumble from crisis to crisis until its very viability is jeopardized.
Your academic mentors and the scientists whose works you had read were continuing to stumble over grand problems that now seemed, if not solved, at least soluble.
Without a comprehensive agenda and expertise in foreign and security policy, the party will most likely stumble badly should it come to power.
Third, we could separate past information, so that it takes a special effort or additional time to retrieve it, thereby reducing the chances that we accidentally stumble upon it.
But it is an extremely dangerous attitude with people like Sarkozy ready, willing and able to impose high political costs upon the bank should it stumble.
Nonetheless, Ukraine continued to stumble in a European direction, preserving important parts of the gains made in 2004.
While Ahmedinejad's apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime's downfall.
And, in a country where any political activity was considered treasonous, many expected the neophyte NTC to stumble early and often.
Even if the US economy continues to stumble in the months ahead, the Fed is unlikely to do anything more before the end of the year.
The lack of consensus on the magnitude of the problem, and gaps in legislative coverage, only serves to deepen the holes into which vulnerable populations stumble while attempting to make a living through artisanal e-waste mining.

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