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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. t. 1. To cause to stumble or trip. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall. [1913 Webster] False and dazzling fires to stumble men. --Milton. [1913 Webster] One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis. --Locke. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] There stumble steeds strong and down go all. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble. --Prov. iv. 19. [1913 Webster] 2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. [1913 Webster] He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err. [1913 Webster] He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John ii. 10. [1913 Webster] 4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. [1913 Webster] Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stumble \Stum"ble\, n. 1. A trip in walking or running. [1913 Webster] 2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude. [1913 Webster] One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: stumble n 1: an unsteady uneven gait [syn: {lurch}, {stumble}, {stagger}] 2: 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" [syn: {trip}, {trip-up}, {stumble}, {misstep}] v 1: walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: {stumble}, {falter}, {bumble}] 2: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: {stumble}, {trip}] 3: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" [syn: {stumble}, {hit}] 4: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" [syn: {stumble}, {slip up}, {trip up}]