stumble : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stumble	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for stumble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stumble n an unsteady uneven gait [syn: lurch, stumble, stagger] 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" Synonym(s): trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep v walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: stumble, falter, bumble] miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" Synonym(s): stumble, trip encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" Synonym(s): stumble, hit make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" Synonym(s): stumble, slip up, trip up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. t. 1. To cause to stumble or trip. 2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. False and dazzling fires to stumble men. --Milton. One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. There stumble steeds strong and down go all. --Chaucer. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. --Prov. iv. 19. 2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John ii. 10. 4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. --Dryden. Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stumble \Stum"ble\, n. 1. A trip in walking or running. 2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. --L'Estrange.