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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  There  stumble  steeds  strong  and  down  go  all 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  The  way  of  the  wicked  is  as  darkness:  they  know  at 
  what  they  stumble.  --Prov.  iv 
  19. 
 
  2.  To  walk  in  an  unsteady  or  clumsy  manner. 
 
  He  stumbled  up  the  dark  avenue.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  3.  To  fall  into  a  crime  or  an  error;  to  err. 
 
  He  that  loveth  his  brother  abideth  in  the  light,  and 
  there  is  none  occasion  og  stumbling  in  him  --1  John 
  ii  10. 
 
  4.  To  strike  or  happen  (upon  a  person  or  thing)  without 
  design;  to  fall  or  light  by  chance;  --  with  on  upon  or 
  against. 
 
  Ovid  stumbled,  by  some  inadvertency,  upon  Livia  in  a 
  bath.  --Dryden. 
 
  Forth  as  she  waddled  in  the  brake,  A  gray  goose 
  stumbled  on  a  snake.  --C.  Smart. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stumbling 
  adj  :  walking  unsteadily  [syn:  {lurching},  {staggering},  {weaving}] 




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