stumble
趔趄,绊倒,跌跌撞撞,踉跄
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Definitions
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stum·bled, stum·bling.
- : to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- : to walk or go unsteadily: to stumble down a dark passage.
- : to make a slip, mistake, or blunder, especially a sinful one: to stumble over a question; to stumble and fall from grace.
- : to proceed in a hesitating or blundering manner, as in action or speech.
- : to discover or meet with accidentally or unexpectedly: They stumbled on a little village.
- : to falter or hesitate, as at an obstacle to progress or belief.
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stum·bled, stum·bling.
- : to cause to stumble; trip.
- : to give pause to; puzzle or perplex.
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Examples
The closest thing Rutgers has to a bad loss is a stumble at Michigan State.
The metrics love Illinois, but it is a 9-5 team with a few stumbles at home.
Leaders in California and elsewhere have made similar stumbles.
Naturally, Big Tech’s retrenchment has heightened the debate over whether its leaders are vastly overpriced and long overdue for a steep slide, or simply suffering a temporary stumble.
Jesse Marx and Lisa Halverstadt broke the news of Thompson’s departure and reviewed the list of stumbles that led to it.
At 5:00 a.m. the clubs get going properly; the Forbes stumble down from their loggias, grinning and swaying tipsily.
A party that cannot make these decisions openly and confidently will stumble in 2016.
Meanwhile, the labor unions and liberal groups that nominally backed Cuomo could not be more thrilled to see him stumble.
I stumble through interviews for my job at NY1, memories flooding back.
At the end of the fourth season premiere, Arya and The Hound stumble upon a tavern in the woods.
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.