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Words related to stumble

Related / Similar Words: trip, trip-up, misstep, lurch, stagger, slip up, trip up, falter, bumble, hit

Definition:

an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep";

an unsteady uneven gait;

make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name";

miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root";

walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about";

encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant";

Hyponyms: founder

Entailments: walk

Derivational Morphology: slip up, trip up, catch, stagger, flounder, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen, falter, bumble, trip, trip-up, misstep, slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis, bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, tripper

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