What is another word for stumble?
Synonyms for stumble
ˈstʌm bəlstum·ble
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Wiktionary
Princeton's WordNet
lurch, stumble, staggernoun
an unsteady uneven gait
Synonyms:
stagger, misstep, lurch, lunge, pitch, trip-up, trip, pitchingtrip, 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 tripstumble, 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, muffstumble, 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, bumblestumble, 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, makestumble, slip up, trip upverb
make an error
"She slipped up and revealed the name"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
stumbleverb
Synonyms:
trip, miss one's footing, make a false stepstumbleverb
stumblenoun
Synonyms:
trip, false stepstumblenoun
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "stumble":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#132 | make | |
#220 | travel | |
#225 | off | |
#899 | error | |
#1158 | score | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1651 | remove | |
#1706 | trip | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3635 | catch | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4553 | murder | |
#5045 | fault | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5805 | mistake | |
#6268 | pitch | |
#6906 | trigger | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#10049 | activate | |
#10274 | spark | |
#10327 | defect | |
#14782 | attain | |
#15094 | pitching | |
#18615 | tally | |
#20275 | pip | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#32348 | slay | |
#33849 | actuate | |
#33911 | muff | |
#45358 | blunder | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#56544 | falter | |
#60015 | stagger | |
#61267 | stutter | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#64040 | waver | |
#64890 | deadlocked | |
#66209 | lurch | |
#67188 | faltering | |
#67307 | lunge | |
#70169 | tripper | |
#71096 | jaunt | |
#84625 | gaffe | |
#93078 | blooper | |
#104177 | botch | |
#106648 | stammer | |
#107554 | misstep | |
#220019 | flub | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#285630 | thinko | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use stumble in a sentence?
I loved the fact that it’s the United States of America and you can just stumble onto these towns like this.
The solutions are hand picked, so often when I have a choice between two words, I'll pick the one that I think the creator would think is more clever and folks would stumble upon.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
In the current lockdown, many of us will likely be getting around to all those cleaning and DIY jobs people love to put off, but I doubt anyone would have expected to stumble across a bomb that has been quietly sitting in their roof for over a hundred years.
Translations for stumble
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- zakopnoutCzech
- [[begå]] [[fejl]], fejltrin, fejle, fejl, snublen, snubleDanish
- staksen, Fehltritt, Ausrutscher, Fehler, Schnitzer, Patzer, stolpernGerman
- torpeza, tropezón, caminar torpemente, tropiezo, tropezar, deslizSpanish
- سکندریPersian
- virhe, kompuroida, kompastua, kompastus, mokaFinnish
- trébucher, chute, bourde, faux pasFrench
- tersandungIndonesian
- scivolone, scivolareItalian
- 넘어질 뻔하다Korean
- kluptLatvian
- tapepa, tapepe, tūtukiMāori
- strompelen, struikelenDutch
- snubleNorwegian
- tropeço, tropeçarPortuguese
- mitk'ayQuechua
- спотыкаться, спотыкание, ошибаться, оступаться, проступокRussian
- snubblaSwedish
- สะดุดThai
- 絆倒Chinese
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