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To move clumsily while regularly losing one's balance
“They would stumble about drunkenly, falling down steps and over chairs and tables, but remaining perfectly cheerful.”
To trip or fall down
“She pushed him aside, making him stumble to the floor.”
To move ploddingly with heavy steps
“I'm using my home gym when a gaggle of nasally, screechy drunk college kids stumble loudly past my house.”
To commit a mistake or error
“Living deep in the past can cause you to stumble while trying to become a better person.”
To speak stammeringly or with indecision
“I stumble over my mumbled responses, trying to form questions I knew needed asking.”
(stumble on/upon) To discover something, especially by chance
“I've actually done it many times when I stumble upon someone who is a horrible scoundrel, and I feel they need a jolt to straighten them out.”
To make an incorrect judgment or estimate of
To pause in indecision before doing something
To confound or perplex someone
To take place or do something by accident or without intending to
To come into forceful contact with something
An involuntary slip or fall
“In a catastrophic stumble, he sprawls onto the floor, dragging her down with him.”
A mistake, typically unintentional
“This isn't the first time the notorious tabloid has made a stumble while reporting on Garth Brooks.”
An embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation
A speech disorder characterized by hesitant and interrupted flow of words
The state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective,
A person's ruin or downfall
A thumping noise
An uneven walk or progress
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