noun
definition
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
definition
An error or blunder.
definition
A clumsy walk.
verb
definition
To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
example
He stumbled over a rock.
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To make a mistake or have trouble.
example
I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
definition
To cause to stumble or trip.
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To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
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To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
Examples of stumbles in a Sentence
The increasingly demented scientist murders anyone who stumbles on the truth.
Unless Sony really stumbles out of the gate, this one's a draw.
Questioning Charlie 's grip on sanity, Vincent dismisses the boy 's ranting, until he himself stumbles on the truth.
And I fear that this new production of Oden von Horvath 's 1931 melodrama stumbles at both hurdles.
London is as yet underrepresented in this database, with only one 428 node track compared to these tentative stumbles that we have made.
He stumbles onto a beach area to see scores of injured & traumatized survivors within the burning wreckage of a plane crash.
Homer stumbles through life as a crude, clumsy, lazy, overeating character who is extremely loyal to and protective of his family.
In some instances, these other-worldly creatures can be downright nasty, placing curses on passerby who inadvertently stumbles into their domain.
Our hero Mad Max, wandering the outback with his dog, stumbles across such an outpost.
However, unless you remember to make your tweets private in general on Twitter, whenever you do publish your check-ins, everyone who stumbles across your account will be able to see where you are (or aren't!) in real time.
Or, if an old friend stumbles across one of your sites, he might be more inclined to make contact by leaving a casual message on your guestbook instead of sending you an email.
In search of the little critter, Sawyer stumbles across Hurley doing what he does best.
When Pat suddenly stumbles on a disused manhole behind a washing machine, she is hopeful she has found a solution.
A teenage hacker stumbles across a file, which proves a hacker within a large corporation is siphoning money into a secret bank account.