stumbled
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Stumble \Stum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stumbling.] [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]
1.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. [1913 Webster]
There stumble steeds strong and down go all.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know at what they stumble.— Prov. iv. 19.[1913 Webster]
2.To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner. [1913 Webster]
He stumbled up the dark avenue.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]
3.To fall into a crime or an error; to err. [1913 Webster]
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion og stumbling in him.— 1 John ii. 10.[1913 Webster]
4.To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against. [1913 Webster]
Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake.— C. Smart.[1913 Webster]