stumble

1. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.Examples: "He stumbled over a rock."; "Last night, you drunkenly stumbled to the front door, waking up the whole house."; "He stumbled up the dark avenue."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.Examples: "I always stumble over verbs in Spanish."; "[…] they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre in vision, they stumble in iudgement."Synonyms: blunderintransitive

3. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.Examples: "Slowly, I turned around and the shock of it stumbled me back a few steps."transitive

4. (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.Examples: "False and dazzling fires to stumble men."; "One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis."figurativelytransitive