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Jul 5th 2013, 23:54, by ReidAA

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{{en-verb|stumbl|es}}

 

{{en-verb|stumbl|es}}

   

# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to [[trip]] or [[fall]]

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# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To [[trip]] or [[fall]]; to [[walk]] [[clumsily]].

#: ''He '''stumbled''' over a rock.''

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#*{{quote-book|year=1913|author={{w|Joseph C. Lincoln}}

# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to make a [[mistake]] or have [[trouble]]

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|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients]|chapter=1

#: ''I always '''stumble''' over verbs in Spanish.''

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|passage=I '''stumbled''' along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}

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#: {{usex|He '''stumbled''' over a rock.}}

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# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To make a [[mistake]] or have [[trouble]].

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#: {{usex|I always '''stumble''' over verbs in Spanish.}}

 

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To cause to stumble or trip.

 

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To cause to stumble or trip.

 

# {{context|transitive|figurative|lang=en}} To [[mislead]]; to [[confound]]; to cause to err or to fall.

 

# {{context|transitive|figurative|lang=en}} To [[mislead]]; to [[confound]]; to cause to err or to fall.


Latest revision as of 23:54, 5 July 2013

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

stumble (plural stumbles)

  1. a fall, trip or substantial misstep
  2. an error or blunder

Synonyms[edit]

Translations[edit]

a fall or trip

Verb[edit]

stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)

  1. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.
    He stumbled over a rock.
  2. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
    I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
  3. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
    • Milton
      False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
    • John Locke
      One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

to make a mistake or have trouble

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