Meaning

3 senses

  1. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

    Stolpern, Fehltritt

    спотыка́ниеspotykánije

  2. An error or blunder.

    Fehler, Schnitzer, Ausrutscher

    про́махprómax

    an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

  3. A clumsy walk.

Examples

144 sentences

  1. Tom stumbled and fell.

    Том спіткнувся та впав. — deniko

    ruТом споткнулся и упал. — marafon

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  2. Tom stumbled out into the street.

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  3. I saw Tom stumble and fall.

    ruЯ видел, как Том споткнулся и упал. — marafon

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  4. We stumbled around in the dark.

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  5. Tom stumbled over something on the floor.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
a fall or trip:
an error or blunder:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a fall or trip:
an error or blunder:

Origin

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).

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Forms

plural: stumbles
Singularstumble
Pluralstumbles

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
a blunder:errorA2faultA2lapseC1mistakeA2slipB1blooperblunderboo-boodefectfaux pasfluffgaffethinko
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stuffA2stuffyC1stumpstunB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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