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