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STUMBLE, This word is probably from a root that signifies to stop or to strike, and may be allied to stammer.

1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.

The way of the wicked is as darkness they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs 4 .

2. To err to slide into a crime or an error.

He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 1 John 2 .

3. To strike upon without design to fall on to light on by chance. Men often stumble upon valuable discoveries.

Ovid stumbled by some inadvertence upon Livia in a bath.

STUMBLE,

1. To obstruct in progress to cause to trip or stop.

2. To confound to puzzle to put to a nonplus to perplex.

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

STUMBLE, n.

1. A trip in walking or running.

2. A blunder a failure.

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