Stumble vs. Tumble

Stumblenoun

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

Tumblenoun

A fall, especially end over end.

‘I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.’;

Stumblenoun

An error or blunder.

Tumblenoun

A disorderly heap.

Stumblenoun

A clumsy walk.

Tumblenoun

(informal) An act of sexual intercourse.

Stumbleverb

(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

‘He stumbled over a rock.’;

Tumbleverb

(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.

Stumbleverb

(intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.

‘I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.’;

Tumbleverb

(intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.

Stumbleverb

(transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.

Tumbleverb

(intransitive) To roll over and over.

Stumbleverb

To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

Tumbleverb

(intransitive) To drop rapidly.

‘Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.’;

Stumbleverb

To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.

Tumbleverb

To have sexual intercourse.

Stumbleverb

To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.

‘There stumble steeds strong and down go all.’; ‘The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.’;

Tumbleverb

(transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.

Stumbleverb

To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.

‘He stumbled up the dark avenue.’;

Tumbleverb

To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.

‘to tumble a bed’;

Stumbleverb

To fall into a crime or an error; to err.

‘He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.’;

Tumbleverb

(colloquial) To suddenly realise, to get wind of.

Stumbleverb

To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; - with on, upon, or against.

‘Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.’; ‘Forth as she waddled in the brake,A gray goose stumbled on a snake.’;

Tumbleverb

(cryptocurrency) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.

Stumbleverb

To cause to stumble or trip.

Tumbleverb

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses.

Stumbleverb

Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

‘False and dazzling fires to stumble men.’; ‘One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.’;

Tumbleverb

To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

‘He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.’;

Stumblenoun

A trip in walking or running.

Tumbleverb

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

Stumblenoun

A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.

‘One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.’;

Tumbleverb

To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; - sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

Stumblenoun

an unsteady uneven gait

Tumbleverb

To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

Stumblenoun

an unintentional but embarrassing blunder;

‘he recited the whole poem without a single trip’; ‘he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later’; ‘confusion caused his unfortunate misstep’;

Tumblenoun

Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Stumbleverb

walk unsteadily;

‘The drunk man stumbled about’;

Tumblenoun

an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end

Stumbleverb

miss a step and fall or nearly fall;

‘She stumbled over the tree root’;

Tumblenoun

a sudden drop from an upright position;

‘he had a nasty spill on the ice’;

Stumbleverb

encounter by chance;

‘I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant’;

Tumbleverb

fall down, as if collapsing;

‘The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it’;

Stumbleverb

make an error;

‘She slipped up and revealed the name’;

Tumbleverb

cause to topple or tumble by pushing

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Tumbleverb

roll over and over, back and forth

Tumbleverb

fly around;

‘The clothes tumbled in the dryer’; ‘rising smoke whirled in the air’;

Tumbleverb

fall apart;

‘the building crimbled after the explosion’; ‘Negociations broke down’;

Tumbleverb

throw together in a confused mass;

‘They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern’;

Tumbleverb

understand, usually after some initial difficulty;

‘She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on’;

Tumbleverb

fall suddenly and sharply;

‘Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency’;

Tumbleverb

put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying;

‘Wash in warm water and tumble dry’;

Tumbleverb

suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat

Tumbleverb

do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully