stumble
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
stumble (plural stumbles)
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]
a fall or trip
an error or blunder
Verb [edit]
stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)
- (intransitive) to trip or fall
- He stumbled over a rock.
- (intransitive) to make a mistake or have trouble
- I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to trip or fall
to make a mistake or have trouble
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