stumble
verb (used without object)
to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
stumbler
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a word derived from
stumble.
Example Sentences
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Fully accepting that he’s the vulnerable stumbler into conditions and spaces typically inhospitable to humans, Munier still finds spiritual worth in going a day without any sightings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
From above and beyond, we perceive him not as a great man falling but as a fragile, all too human stumbler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ridgefield, Conn. Cat haters are of four types: the insecure, the egocentric, the stumbler, the peasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the remark does not pass unheeded, and a laugh, varying in tone from open guffaw to suppressed titter, further exasperates and discomfits the luckless stumbler, who vows vengeance on his tormentor.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Yet, happy for us when, their cause defined, They walk no longer with a stumbler blind, And quicken in the virtue of their cause, To think me a poor mouther of old saws!
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
