English-French translations for stumble

• trébucher
• bourde
• broncher
• chute
• encoubler
• faire un faux pas
• faux pas
• tomber
  Le fait que ce rapport nous ait fait tomber plus ou moins par hasard sur cette façon véritablement inhabituelle de procéder de la part de la Commission et du Conseil nous servira de leçon. It will be a lesson to us that this report has made us stumble more or less by chance across this truly unusual way of proceeding on the part of the Commission and the Council.

Definition of stumble

• A fall, trip or substantial misstep
• A clumsy walk
• To trip or fall; to walk clumsily
• To make a mistake or have trouble
• To cause to stumble or trip
• To strike or happen without design; to fall or light by chance; with ''on'', ''upon'', or ''against''

Examples

• He stumbled over a rock
• I always stumble over verbs in Spanish

Related words

• stumblebum
• stumble upon
• stumble across
• stumble on
• stumble against
• stumble and fall
• a horse may stumble though he has four legs
• even a wise man stumbles