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Stumbled

Stumble \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.

Wiktionary
stumbled

vb. (en-past of: stumble)

Usage examples of "stumbled".

He mumbled something about checking urgent data, but stumbled out of the dining area, past the office, and out of the house.

I put on the robe and looking around for a bathroom, stumbled over Harlan's fisher clothes.

The horse, instinctively lashing out behind, then reared and stumbled, falling across a young Mommy Snake which had broken through the cordon.

Someday - someday, she would find out who, and why, and - she stumbled over a phrase about redemption following mercy, having in mind neither.

I believe those same items may carry traces of the perpetrator - ‘ She nearly stumbled over the word, catching sight of Lieutenant Achael in the group behind the captain.

Then I snapped the two bones in my left forearm when Spadix stumbled while we were rounding up the mares and foals prior to a storm.

To Theoda, she explained briefly how to strap herself into the pilot chair, following the woman's nervous fingers as they stumbled over the fastenings.

One of them stumbled and spilled the liquid over Nancia's gleaming outer shell.

She stumbled over some jumble piled in the corridor and recovered herself.

She stumbled out to see who it was and arrived in time to see Mart'an, himself, and a bevy of waiters sweep into the main lounge.

The others gasped as the woman nearly stumbled forward into the red-hot mass.

He led her along the track until she nearly stumbled over a big handle attached to one side of the track.

He stumbled over his pronunciation of the written word, putting the accent on the second syllable.

She'd once tried to explain the complexity of that rapport to her father and stumbled badly.

He might have sliced her arm off, but he tripped over the carton, giving her a head start as she raced back to his sled, stumbled into it, and hit the replay button before she slid the door closed.