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StumbleStumble Stum"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John
ii. 10.
4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a
bath. --Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose
stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart. Stumble
Stumble Stum"ble, v. t.
1. To cause to stumble or trip.
2. Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err
or to fall.
False and dazzling fires to stumble men. --Milton.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of
this hypothesis. --Locke.
StumbledStumble Stum"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John
ii. 10.
4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a
bath. --Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose
stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart. Stumbler
Stumbler Stum"bler, n.
One who stumbles.
StumblingStumble Stum"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word
akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1. To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs;
to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall;
to stagger because of a false step.
There stumble steeds strong and down go all.
--Chaucer.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at
what they stumble. --Prov. iv.
19.
2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion og stumbling in him. --1 John
ii. 10.
4. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without
design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or
against.
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a
bath. --Dryden.
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose
stumbled on a snake. --C. Smart. Stumbling-block
Stumbling-block Stum"bling-block`, n.
Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. --1
Cor. i. 23.
Stumblingly
Stumblingly Stum"bling*ly, adv.
In a stumbling manner.
Stumbling-stone
Stumbling-stone Stum"bling-stone`, n.
A stumbling-block.
This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. --T. Burnet.
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