STUMBLE meaning: Trip and momentarily lose balance

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word stumble:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

stumble: Merriam-Webster.com
stumble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
stumble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
stumble: Collins English Dictionary
stumble: Vocabulary.com
Stumble, stumble: Wordnik
stumble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
stumble: Wiktionary
stumble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
stumble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
stumble: Infoplease Dictionary
stumble: Dictionary.com
stumble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
stumble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Stumble, The Stumble (film), The Stumble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Stumble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
stumble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
stumble: Rhymezone
stumble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
stumble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
stumble: Free Dictionary
stumble: Mnemonic Dictionary
stumble: Dictionary/thesaurus
stumble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Stumble (2003 film), stumble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

stumble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

stumble: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

stumble: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

stumble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
▸ noun:  An error or blunder.
▸ noun:  A clumsy walk.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
▸ verb:  To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.

Similar:

slip up, trip up, blunder, lurch, stagger, hit, falter, bumble, trip, misstep, more...

Opposite:

trip, fall, lose one's footing

Types:

trip, slip, lapse, blunder, faux pas, more...

Phrases:

stumble on, stumble upon, stumble into, stumble across, stumble onto, more...

Adjectives:

many, little, slight, first, occasional, better, last, single, bad, second, heavy

Colors:

gray, brown, olive, burgundy, maroon, more...

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