stumble

/stˈʌmbəl/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. walk unsteadily
   “The drunk man stumbled about”
2. miss a step and fall or nearly fall
   “She stumbled over the tree root”
3. encounter by chance
   “I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant”
4. make an error
   “She slipped up and revealed the name”

noun

1. an unsteady uneven gait
2. an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
   “he recited the whole poem without a single trip”

Synonyms for stumble

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

Words that rhyme with stumble

• tumble
• fumble
• grumble
• humble
• jumble
• rumble
• bumble
• crumble
• mumble
• umbel
• gumbel
• kumble
• trumble
• umble