stumble
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an unsteady uneven gait
Types & categories
- gait hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
walk unsteadily
The drunk man stumbled about
Types & categories
- walk hypernym
Related & opposite
- stumble derivation
Sense 3 noun
an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
he recited the whole poem without a single trip
Types & categories
- blunder hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
miss a step and fall or nearly fall
She stumbled over the tree root
Types & categories
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Sense 5 verb
encounter by chance
I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
Types & categories
- come into hypernym
Sense 6 verb
make an error
She slipped up and revealed the name
Types & categories
- err hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stumble |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lurch |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | flounder |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | gait |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stumble |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | walk |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | trip up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | slip up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | blunder |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | trip |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | stumbler |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | walk |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | founder |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | come into |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | slip-up |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | trip-up |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | fuckup |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | err |