stumble
31stumble on — see stumble across …
32stumble — verb 1》 trip or momentarily lose one s balance. ↘walk unsteadily. 2》 make a mistake or repeated mistakes in speaking. 3》 (stumble across/on/upon) find by chance. noun an act of stumbling. Derivatives stumbler noun stumbling adjective… …
33stumble on — (also stumble upon) Fall upon by chance, light upon, strike upon without design …
34stumble — I. v. a. 1. Obstruct, trip, cause to stumble. 2. Perplex, confound, puzzle, nonplus, confuse, embarrass, pose. II. v. n. 1. Trip, miss one s footing, make a false step. 2. Err, do wrong. III. n. 1 …
35stumble on — See stumble across …
36stumble — 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 …
37stumble — verb 1) he stumbled and fell Syn: trip, lose one s balance, lose one s footing, slip 2) he stumbled back home Syn: stagger, totter, blunder, hobble Phrases …
38stumble — [ˈstʌmb(ə)l] verb [I] 1) to fall, or almost fall, while you are walking or running Derek stumbled over a fallen tree.[/ex] 2) to make a mistake when you are speaking • stumble across sb/sth …
39stumble — [14] Stumble was probably borrowed from an unrecorded Old Norse *stumla. This would have come, along with its first cousin stumra ‘trip’, from a prehistoric Germanic base *stum , *stam ‘check, impede’, which also produced English stammer and stem …
40stumble — v. & n. v. 1 intr. lurch forward or have a partial fall from catching or striking or misplacing one s foot. 2 intr. (often foll. by along) walk with repeated stumbles. 3 intr. make a mistake or repeated mistakes in speaking etc. 4 intr. (foll. by …
