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stumblesnounpl. of stumble an unintentional departure from truth or accuracywas his hurtful remark a regrettable stumble, or was it made with artful intention? blunders, bobbles, boo-boos, boobs(British), bricks, clangers(British), clinkers, errors, faults, flubs, fluffs, fumbles, gaffes, gaffs, goofs, inaccuracies, lapses, miscues, missteps, mistakes, oversights, screwups, slips, slipups, trips bloomers, bloopers, boners, howlers, pratfallsfoul-ups, snafusmisapprehensions, miscalculations, miscomprehensions, misconceptions, misconstructions, miscues, misdescriptions, misimpressions, misinterpretations, misjudgments, misreadings, misstatements, misunderstandings accuracies, exactitudes, precisionsinerrancies, infallibilities, perfections the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarilyhas bones so brittle that a minor stumble could result in a serious break falls, slips, spills, tumbles headers, pratfallsmissteps, tripsdescents, dives, plunges, skids, slidesfree-falls stumblesverbpresent tense third-person singular of stumbleto go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarilythe bride stumbled on the altar steps and landed smack in the arms of the minister falls, slips, topples, trips, tumbles collapses, crumples, drops, flumps, keels, plops, plunks(or plonks), slumps (over)crashes, free-falls, nose-dives, plummets, plunges, precipitates, wipes outskids, slides gets up, rises, stands (up), uprises to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectuallystumbled twice while she was reciting the "Gettysburg Address" blunders, bumbles, flogs(British), flounders, limps, lumbers, plods, struggles, trudges jogs, shambles, shuffleswallows, weltersfalters, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, tottersfumbles, muddles coasts, flies, glides, kilts, sails, zips, zooms to move heavily or clumsilythe tipsy revelers left the path and wearily stumbled through the tangled undergrowth barges, clumps, flogs(British), flounders, galumphs, lumbers, lumps, plods, pounds, scuffles, scuffs, shambles, shuffles, slogs, sloughs, stamps, stomps, stumps, tramps, tromps, trudges drags, flops, haulsblunders, careens, dodders, lurches, reels, staggers, sways, teeters, totters, waddles, weaves, wobbles(also wabbles) breezes, coasts, glides, slides, waltzes, whisks drifts, floats, hangs, hovers, poises, wafts to make a mistakethat network announcer rarely stumbles when he's on the air blunders, boobs(British), errs, flubs, fluffs, fouls up, fumbles, goofs (up), louses up, messes (up), screws up, slips up, trips nodsbobbles, botches, bungles, butchers, foozles, mangles, mishandles, muffs, murdersmiscalculates, misconceives, miscounts, miscues, misdeems, misgauges, misjudges, mistakesmisconstrues, misinterprets, misunderstands drops the ball, lays an egg |