stumble
stumble is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
- intransitive verb. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
- intransitive verb. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
- transitive verb. To cause to stumble or trip.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.
- noun. A trip in walking or running.
- noun. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
- noun. an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
"he recited the whole poem without a single trip"
"he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"
- noun. an unsteady uneven gait
- verb. make an error
"She slipped up and revealed the name"
- verb. miss a step and fall or nearly fall
"She stumbled over the tree root"
- verb. walk unsteadily
"The drunk man stumbled about"
- verb. encounter by chance
"I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
Synonyms
misstep, trip, lurch, stagger, bumble, falter, hit
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stumble:
Common word forms
stumbled, stumbler, stumbles, stumbling
Words from these letters
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