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STUMBLE, v.i. [This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]

1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 4.

2. To err; to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2.

3. To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE, v.t.

1. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

STUMBLE, n.

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder; a failure.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.


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STUMBLE, v.i. [This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]

1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 4.

2. To err; to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2.

3. To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE, v.t.

1. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

STUMBLE, n.

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder; a failure.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

STUM'BLE, n.

  1. A trip in walking or running.
  2. A blunder; a failure. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. – L'Estrange.

STUM'BLE, v.i. [Ice. stumra. This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]

  1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse. The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. – Prov. iv.
  2. To err; to slide into a crime or an error. He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. – 1 John ii.
  3. To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries. Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath. – Dryden.

STUM'BLE, v.t.

  1. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.
  2. To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex. One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. – Locke.

Stum"ble
  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 cause to stumble or trip.
  3. A trip in walking or running.
  4. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

    He stumbled up the dark avenue. Sir W. Scott.

  5. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

    False and dazzling fires to stumble men. Milton.

    One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. Locke.

  6. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

    One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. L'Estrange.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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Stumble

STUMBLE, verb intransitive [This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.]

1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble Proverbs 4:12.

2. To err; to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2:1.

3. To strike upon without design; to fall on; to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE, verb transitive

1. To obstruct in progress; to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound; to puzzle; to put to a nonplus; to perplex.

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

STUMBLE, noun

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder; a failure.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

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