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Textual thesaurus for "stumble"

(noun) trip, trip-up, misstep

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


(noun) lurch, stagger

an unsteady uneven gait


(verb) slip up, trip up

make an error

She slipped up and revealed the name


(verb) trip

miss a step and fall or nearly fall

She stumbled over the tree root


(verb) falter, bumble

walk unsteadily

The drunk man stumbled about


(verb) hit

encounter by chance

I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant