Definition of Stumble
Verb: stumble stúm-bul
- Walk unsteadily
"The drunk man stumbled about";
- falter, bumble
- Miss a step and fall or nearly fall
"She stumbled over the tree root";
- trip
- Encounter by chance
"I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant";
- hit
- Make an error
"She stumbled and revealed the name";
- slip up, trip up
- An unsteady uneven gait
- lurch, stagger
- An unintentional but embarrassing blunder
"he recited the whole poem without a single stumble";
- trip, trip-up, misstep
See also:
stum
stumblebum
Anagrams containing the word stumble