Shamble vs. Stumble: What's the Difference?
Shamble and Stumble Definitions
Shamble
To walk in an awkward, lazy, or unsteady manner, shuffling the feet.
Stumble
To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
Shamble
A shuffling gait.
Stumble
To proceed unsteadily or falteringly; flounder.
Shamble
To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.
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Stumble
To act or speak falteringly or clumsily
An inexperienced actor stumbling through his lines.
Shamble
(mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
Stumble
To make a mistake or mistakes; blunder
The administration stumbled badly on foreign policy.
Shamble
One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
Stumble
To come upon accidentally or unexpectedly
"The urge to wider voyages ... caused men to stumble upon New America" (Kenneth Cragg).
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Shamble
A place where butcher's meat is sold.
As summer flies are in the shambles.
Stumble
To cause to stumble.
Shamble
A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
To make a shambles of the parliament house.
Stumble
The act of stumbling.
Shamble
To walk awkwardly and unsteadily, as if the knees were weak; to shuffle along.
Stumble
A mistake or blunder.
Shamble
Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet;
From his shambling I assumed he was very old
Stumble
A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
Shamble
Walk by dragging one's feet;
He shuffled out of the room
We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
Stumble
An error or blunder.
Stumble
A clumsy walk.
Stumble
(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
He stumbled over a rock.
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
