stumble.
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
Meaning & usage
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
An error or blunder.
A clumsy walk.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To misstep; to walk or run clumsily; to trip or fall.
He stumbled over a rock.
Last night, you drunkenly stumbled to the front door, waking up the whole house.
To make mistakes, to have trouble.
I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
To cause to stumble or trip.
To mislead, to cause to err or fall.
To make a discovery unexpectedly or accidentally; to chance, come, or happen (upon a person or thing) (with onto, across, on, upon).
We stumbled onto the answer without even trying.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.