Stumble /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling

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.

   The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.

2. To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

   He stumbled up the dark avenue.

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.

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.

   Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake.

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.

   One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

1. A trip in walking or running.
2. A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

   One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.