STUMBLE

v. 1 falter, blunder, slip, trip, miss one's footing, stagger, lurch, flounder Minnie caught her heel in the grating and stumbled 2 falter, pause, hesitate, trip, slip, blunder He was very nervous and stumbled his way through his speech 3 stumble on or upon. chance or come or happen on or upon, hit upon, come or run across, find, discover, encounter, Colloq bump into I stumbled on a great new pub when I was out on Saturday