stumble Jul 5th 2013, 23:54, by ReidAA | | Line 41: | Line 41: | | {{en-verb|stumbl|es}} | | {{en-verb|stumbl|es}} | | | | | − | # {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to [[trip]] or [[fall]] | + | # {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To [[trip]] or [[fall]]; to [[walk]] [[clumsily]]. | − | #: ''He '''stumbled''' over a rock.'' | + | #*{{quote-book|year=1913|author={{w|Joseph C. Lincoln}} | − | # {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} to make a [[mistake]] or have [[trouble]] | + | |title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients]|chapter=1 | − | #: ''I always '''stumble''' over verbs in Spanish.'' | + | |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.}} | | + | #: {{usex|He '''stumbled''' over a rock.}} | | + | # {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To make a [[mistake]] or have [[trouble]]. | | + | #: {{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 English[edit] Pronunciation[edit] stumble (plural stumbles) - a fall, trip or substantial misstep
- an error or blunder
Synonyms[edit] - (a blunder): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko
- See also Wikisaurus:error
Translations[edit] stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled) - (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.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (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 - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
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