[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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