What is another word for stumbles?

Pronunciation: [stˈʌmbə͡lz] (IPA)

Stumbles are often used to describe an error or mistake in movement, speech or action. There are several synonyms that can be used instead of stumbles, for example, trips, slips, falters, flounders, bumbles, blunders, and stutters. These words all have a slightly different connotation and can be used to describe different situations. Trips can refer to a physical fall or stumble, while falters can describe hesitation in speech or action. Bumbles can suggest clumsiness or ineptitude, while blunders imply a more significant mistake or error. Using these synonyms can help diversify your writing and add depth to your descriptions of movement, speech or action.

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Usage examples for Stumbles

The horses tremble, one of them stumbles and falls, the traces break, and down goes the carriage.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
She sets her foot upon a man's hand, leaps, stumbles on his body to a fall: Christian dead lies under her embrace.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
In the daytime-for this supernatural effect is felt in broad day as well as at night-the horse more frequently falls or stumbles, as if checked by an invisible force in the midst of his career.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies

Famous quotes with Stumbles

  • Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that.
    Tom Mann
  • When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
    Richard Savage
  • And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
    Edmund Spenser
  • He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
    Edmund Spenser
  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    African Proverb

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