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stumblingverbpresent participle of stumble to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarilythe bride stumbled on the altar steps and landed smack in the arms of the minister falling, slipping, toppling, tripping, tumbling collapsing, crumpling, dropping, flumping, keeling, plopping, plunking(or plonking), slumping (over)crashing, free-falling, nose-diving, plummeting, plunging, precipitating, wiping outskidding, sliding getting up, rising, standing (up), uprising to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectuallystumbled twice while she was reciting the "Gettysburg Address" blundering, bumbling, flogging(British), floundering, limping, lumbering, plodding, struggling, trudging jogging, shambling, shufflingwallowing, welteringfaltering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, totteringfumbling, muddling coasting, flying, gliding, kilting, sailing, zipping, zooming to move heavily or clumsilythe tipsy revelers left the path and wearily stumbled through the tangled undergrowth barging, clumping, flogging(British), floundering, galumphing, lumbering, lumping, plodding, pounding, scuffing, scuffling, shambling, shuffling, slogging, sloughing, stamping, stomping, stumping, tramping, tromping, trudging dragging, flopping, haulingblundering, careening, doddering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, tottering, waddling, weaving, wobbling(also wabbling) breezing, coasting, gliding, sliding, waltzing, whisking drifting, floating, hanging, hovering, poising, wafting to make a mistakethat network announcer rarely stumbles when he's on the air blundering, boobing(British), erring, flubbing, fluffing, fouling up, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), screwing up, slipping up, tripping noddingbobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, foozling, mangling, mishandling, muffing, murderingmiscalculating, misconceiving, miscounting, miscuing, misdeeming, misgauging(also misgaging), misjudging, mistakingmisconstruing, misinterpreting, misunderstanding dropping the ball, laying an egg |