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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stumble \stum"ble\, v. i. imp. p. p. stumbled; p. pr. vb.
n. stumbling. oe. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to e. stammer. see stammer.
1. to trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
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there stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--chaucer.
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the way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --prov. iv.
19.
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2. to walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
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he stumbled up the dark avenue. --sir w.
scott.
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3. to fall into a crime or an error; to err.
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he that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 john
ii. 10.
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4. to strike or happen upon a person or thing without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
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ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon livia in a
bath. --dryden.
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forth as she waddled in the brake,
a gray goose stumbled on a snake. --c. smart.
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see also:
stumbled stumbling stammer
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