n. Function: verb
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Synonyms: WALLOW 2, blunder, flounder, lurch
Related Words: falter, waver; trip; fall
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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 FF1C; stumbled across the darkened room and fell FF1E;
Synonyms: blunder, bumble, lurch, ||snapper; compare WALLOW 2
Related Words: reel, stagger, totter; trip; pitch, topple
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Synonyms: LUMBER , barge, clump, galumph, stump
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Synonyms: TEETER , falter, lurch, stagger, ||stammer, topple, totter, wobble
Related Words: careen, swing
6 to act, proceed, or execute in a hesitant and clumsily faltering manner FF1C; stumbled through his Latin translation FF1E;
Synonyms: limp, muddle, shuffle
Related Words: falter, hesitate, wobble; blunder, bumble; botch, bungle, ||muck
Antonyms: breeze
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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)
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Synonyms: PUZZLE , befog, bewilder, ||cap, confound, confuse, metagrobolize, perplex, pose