Stumble vs. Stutter — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Stumble and Stutter
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Definitions
Stumble
Stumble is Prakash Belawadi's debut film. It won the Indian National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English in 2003.
Stutter
Talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants
The child was stuttering in fright
Stumble
To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
Stutter
A tendency to stutter while speaking
‘She's p-perfectly j-justified,’ he said with his intermittent stutter
Stumble
To proceed unsteadily or falteringly; flounder.
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Stutter
To speak or utter with a spasmodic repetition or prolongation of sounds.
Stumble
To act or speak falteringly or clumsily
An inexperienced actor stumbling through his lines.
Stutter
The act or habit of stuttering.
Stumble
To make a mistake or mistakes; blunder
The administration stumbled badly on foreign policy.
Stutter
(ambitransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
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Stumble
To come upon accidentally or unexpectedly
"The urge to wider voyages ... caused men to stumble upon New America" (Kenneth Cragg).
Stutter
(intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty
Stumble
To cause to stumble.
Stutter
A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
Stumble
The act of stumbling.
Stutter
(obsolete) One who stutters.
Stumble
A mistake or blunder.
Stutter
To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
Trembling, stuttering, calling for his confessor.
Stumble
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
Stutter
The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
Stumble
An error or blunder.
Stutter
One who stutters; a stammerer.
Stumble
A clumsy walk.
Stutter
A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
Stumble
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
He stumbled over a rock.
Stutter
Speak haltingly;
The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room
Stumble
(intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
Stumble
(transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
Stumble
To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
Stumble
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against.
Stumble
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.
Stumble
To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
He stumbled up the dark avenue.
Stumble
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.
Stumble
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.
Stumble
To cause to stumble or trip.
Stumble
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.
Stumble
A trip in walking or running.
Stumble
A blunder; a failure; a fall from rectitude.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Stumble
An unsteady uneven gait
Stumble
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
Stumble
Walk unsteadily;
The drunk man stumbled about
Stumble
Miss a step and fall or nearly fall;
She stumbled over the tree root
Stumble
Encounter by chance;
I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
Stumble
Make an error;
She slipped up and revealed the name
