stumble

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəl

Noun

stumble (plural stumbles)

1. a fall, trip or substantial misstep
2. an error or blunder

Synonyms

• (a blunder): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko
• See also Wikisaurus:error

Translations

a fall or trip

• Danish: snublen c
• Finnish: kompastus
• French: chute (fr) f, faux pas (fr) m
• German: Stolpern (de) n, Fehltritt (de) m

• Italian: scivolone (it) m
• Portuguese: tropeço (pt)
• Russian: спотыкание (ru) (spotykanije) n
• Spanish: tropezón (es) m

an error or blunder

• Danish: fejl c, fejltrin n
• Finnish: virhe (fi), moka (fi)
• French: bourde (fr) f

• German: Fehler (de) m, Schnitzer (de) m, Ausrutscher (de) m, Patzer (de) m
• Russian: проступок (ru) (prostupok) m
• Spanish: desliz (es) m, torpeza (es), tropiezo (es) m

Verb

stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)

1. (intransitive) to trip or fall

   He stumbled over a rock.

2. (intransitive) to make a mistake or have trouble

   I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.

Derived terms

• stumble across
• stumble against
• stumble on
• stumble upon

Translations

to trip or fall

• Czech: zakopnout (cs)
• Danish: snuble (da)
• Dutch: struikelen (nl), strompelen (nl)
• Finnish: kompastua (fi), kompuroida (fi)
• French: trébucher (fr)
• German: stolpern (de)
• Italian: scivolare (it)

• Jèrriais: trébutchi
• Korean: 넘어질 뻔하다 (ko) (num uh jil pun ha da)
• Latvian: klupt (lv)
• Portuguese: tropeçar (pt)
• Russian: спотыкаться (ru) (spotykatʹsja), оступаться (ru) (ostupatʹsja)
• Spanish: tropezar (es)
• Swedish: snubbla (sv)

to make a mistake or have trouble

• Danish: fejle, begå fejl
• Korean: 넘어질 뻔하다 (ko)

• Portuguese: tropeçar
• Russian: ошибаться (ru) (ošibatʹsja), оступаться (ru) (ostupatʹsja)

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Translations to be checked

• French: butter

• Ido: butar

See also

• stumbling block

Anagrams

• tumbles