Synonyms for stumble
ˈstʌm bəlstum·ble

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1. stumblenoun

   Synonyms:
   fluff, thinko, error, mistake, blooper, defect, slip, blunder, lapse, faux pas, gaffe, boo-boo, fault

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1. lurch, stumble, staggernoun

   an unsteady uneven gait

   Synonyms:
   stagger, misstep, lurch, lunge, pitch, trip-up, trip, pitching

2. trip, trip-up, stumble, misstepverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tripper, misstep, lurch, slip, trip-up, trip, stagger, head trip

3. stumble, falter, bumbleverb

   walk unsteadily

   "The drunk man stumbled about"

   Synonyms:
   stutter, bollocks up, spoil, bobble, bungle, waver, bollix, mishandle, trip up, falter, screw up, trip, foul up, bodge, flub, bollocks, slip up, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, bumble, hit, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, muck up, stammer, muff

4. stumble, tripverb

   miss a step and fall or nearly fall

   "She stumbled over the tree root"

   Synonyms:
   jaunt, slip up, turn on, actuate, trip up, spark off, falter, trip, trigger off, get off, spark, touch off, trip out, trigger, hit, activate, travel, set off, bumble

5. stumble, hitverb

   encounter by chance

   "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

   Synonyms:
   pip, rack up, bump off, tally, shoot, gain, reach, dispatch, trip up, remove, falter, polish off, attain, run into, collide with, impinge on, off, score, slip up, murder, trip, bumble, hit, strike, slay, arrive at, come to, make

6. stumble, slip up, trip upverb

   make an error

   "She slipped up and revealed the name"

   Synonyms:
   slip up, bumble, trip, trip up, hit, catch, falter

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1. • Come By
   • Err
   • Gait
   • Move

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1. stumbleverb

   Synonyms:
   trip, miss one's footing, make a false step

2. stumbleverb

   Synonyms:
   err, do wrong

3. stumblenoun

   Synonyms:
   trip, false step

4. stumblenoun

   Synonyms:
   error, blunder, failure

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1. List of paraphrases for "stumble":

   faltering, deadlocked

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How to use stumble in a sentence?

1. Andy Lipow:

   The IEA report is tempering any price rise that we might see from Tropical Storm Barry because the market continues to stumble under the weight of slowing economic growth.

2. Roger Smith:

   You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

3. Unknown:

   Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

4. Laila Shabir:

   The list of things that I couldn’t do, or shouldn’t do, was much longer than the things that I was allowed to do, so there was a lot of conflict inside me, because at home my parents were constantly telling me that I should dream big, and shoot for the stars. And they put all these incredible role models in front of me like Margaret Thatcher and Benazir Bhutto and I was supposed to be like them. But the minute I stepped out of my home, I was told the exact opposite. That I was dreaming too big, that if I wouldn’t stop looking at the sky I would stumble and fall on my face.

5. Benny Liu:

   Initially we thought we contaminated our samples, or mixed up the two drugs. And so we repeated these experiments over and over again, and got the same exact results, it was a blind stumble onto this discovery.