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绊倒,失策使绊倒,使困惑绊倒,失足,失策,犯错,蹒跚,踌躇

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

Stumble \Stum"ble\, n.
   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.                       --L'Estrange.

资料来源 : WordNet®

stumble
     v 1: walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about" [syn: {falter},
           {bumble}]
     2: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the
        tree root" [syn: {trip}]
     3: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin
        last night in a restaurant" [syn: {hit}]
     4: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name" [syn:
        {slip up}, {trip up}]

stumble
     n 1: an unsteady uneven gait [syn: {lurch}, {stagger}]
     2: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the
        whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes
        to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his
        unfortunate misstep" [syn: {trip}, {trip-up}, {misstep}]