verb
1.
Synonyms: wallow 2, blunder, flounder, lurch
Related Word: falter, waver; trip; fall
2.
Synonyms: demur , balk, boggle, gag, jib, scruple, shy, stick, stickle, strain
3.
to move so clumsily and awkwardly as to lose one's balance or trip and fall
stumbled across the darkened room and fell
Synonyms: blunder, bumble, lurch, ||snapper; compare wallow 2
Related Word: reel, stagger, totter; trip; pitch, topple
4.
Synonyms: lumber , barge, clump, galumph, stump
5.
Synonyms: teeter , falter, lurch, stagger, ||stammer, topple, totter, wobble
Related Word: careen, swing
6.
to act, proceed, or execute in a hesitant and clumsily faltering manner
stumbled through his Latin translation
Synonyms: limp, muddle, shuffle
Related Word: falter, hesitate, wobble; blunder, bumble; botch, bungle, ||muck
Antonyms: breeze
7.
Synonyms: happen 2, bump, chance, hit, light, luck, meet, tumble
Idioms: come ( or run) up against, fall upon, stub one's toe upon ( or on)
8.
Synonyms: puzzle , befog, bewilder, ||cap, confound, confuse, metagrobolize, perplex, pose