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strewn
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st?u?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?st?un/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Verb
strewn
- past participle of strew
- Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.
Translations
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stumble
English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?mb?l/
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
Noun
stumble (plural stumbles)
- A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
- An error or blunder.
- A clumsy walk.
Synonyms
- (a blunder): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko
- See also Thesaurus:error
Translations
Verb
stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
- 1680, John Dryden, Ovid's Epistles
- He [Ovid] had stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia […] in a bath.
- 1754, Christopher Smart, Snake
- Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
- 1680, John Dryden, Ovid's Epistles
Derived terms
- stumble across
- stumble against
- stumble on
- stumble upon
Translations
See also
- stumbling block
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stumble”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- tumbles
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