| slovo | definícia |
stumbling
(encz) | stumbling,klopýtající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Stumbling
(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] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
stumbling block
(mass) | stumbling block
- prekážka |
stumbling block
(encz) | stumbling block,kámen úrazu Zdeněk Brožstumbling block,překážka n: Zdeněk Brož |
stumblingly
(encz) | stumblingly, |
Stumbling
(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] |
Stumbling-block
(gcide) | Stumbling-block \Stum"bling-block`\, n.
Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.
[1913 Webster]
We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. --1
Cor. i. 23.
[1913 Webster] |
Stumblingly
(gcide) | Stumblingly \Stum"bling*ly\, adv.
In a stumbling manner.
[1913 Webster] |
Stumbling-stone
(gcide) | Stumbling-stone \Stum"bling-stone`\, n.
A stumbling-block.
[1913 Webster]
This stumbling-stone we hope to take away. --T. Burnet.
[1913 Webster] |
stumbling block
(wn) | stumbling block
n 1: any obstacle or impediment |
|