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stumble

Nouns

• (n) an unsteady uneven gait lurch, stagger,
• (n) 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
  misstep, trip-up, trip,

Verbs

• (v) walk unsteadily
  • The drunk man stumbled about
  bumble, falter,
• (v) miss a step and fall or nearly fall
  • She stumbled over the tree root
  trip,
• (v) encounter by chance
  • I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
  hit,
• (v) make an error
  • She slipped up and revealed the name
  slip up, trip up,

Synonyms

bumble falter lurch stagger trip misstep trip-up hit slip up

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