stumble (along)
1stumble — stum|ble1 [ stʌmbl ] verb intransitive * 1. ) to fall or almost fall while you are walking or running: Cheryl s horse stumbled, throwing her to the ground. stumble over/on etc.: On his morning run, Derek stumbled over a fallen tree. stumble… …
2stumble */ — UK [ˈstʌmb(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms stumble : present tense I/you/we/they stumble he/she/it stumbles present participle stumbling past tense stumbled past participle stumbled 1) a) to fall or almost fall while you are walking or… …
3stumble — stumble, trip, blunder, lurch, flounder, lumber, galumph, lollop, bumble can mean to move unsteadily, clumsily, or with defective equilibrium (as in walking, in doing, or in proceeding). Stumble, trip, blunder, lurch, and flounder as applied to… …
4stumble — stumbler, n. stumblingly, adv. /stum beuhl/, v., stumbled, stumbling, n. v.i. 1. to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip. 2. to walk or go unsteadily: to stumble down a dark passage. 3. to… …
5stumble — verb ADVERB ▪ almost, nearly ▪ a little, slightly ▪ She stumbled a little on the uneven path. ▪ badly (often figurative) …
6stumble — [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 …
7stumble — [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 …
8stumble — 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 …
9along — adv. Along is used with these verbs: ↑bob, ↑crawl, ↑drift, ↑hum, ↑invite, ↑limp, ↑pull, ↑roll, ↑shuffle, ↑skip, ↑slither, ↑stumble, ↑ …
10stumble — stum•ble [[t]ˈstʌm bəl[/t]] v. bled, bling, n. 1) to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall 2) to walk or go unsteadily 3) to make a slip, mistake, or blunder, esp. a sinful one 4) to proceed in a… …
