Stumble

Definition

stumble /'stʌmbl/ v ၁။ ~ (over sth) ခလုတ္တိုက္သည္။ တိုက္ မိသည္။ stumble and fall ❍ I stumbled over a tree root. ၂။ ~ (over sth) ; ~ through sth လွ်ာခလုတ္တိုက္သည္။ ထစ္ထစ္ေငါ့ေငါ့ ေျပာသည္၊ ေရးသည္ စသည္။ She stumbled over the unfamiliar word but then continued. ❍ The child stumbled through a piece by Chopin. ❍ my first stumbling attempts at writing poetry. ၃။ ဒယိမ္းဒယိုင္ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ စမ္းတဝါးဝါး ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ stumbling around in the dark. ❍ A drunk stumbled past us. ❍ SHUFFLE n ခလုတ္တိုက္ျခင္း။ တိုက္မိျခင္း။ ဟပ္ထိုးဟပ္ထိုး ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ❏ stumble across/on/upon sb/sth [ PHRV ] အမွတ္မထင္ ေတြ႕ရိွသည္။ Police investigating tax fraud stumbled across a drugs ring. ❏ stumble into sth [ PHRV ] အမွတ္မထင္ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ I stumbled into acting, more by chance than anything else. ❏ stumbling-block n ~ (to sth) ခလုတ္တံသင္း။ အဆီး အတား။ The failure to agree on manning levels is a major stumbling-block to settling the dispute.

Examples

1. Cheryl’s horse stumbled
2. throwing her to the ground.
3. [stumble over/on etc] : On his morning run
4. Derek stumbled over a fallen tree.
5. [stumble through/across etc] : She stumbled across the hall and felt for the light switch.
6. [stumble along/across/into etc] : Hundreds of refugees stumbled wearily along the road.
7. Children often stumble when reading aloud.
8. [stumble over/on] : He was embarrassed
9. stumbling over the words.
10. There are plenty of young rivals to take his place if he stumbles.