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(v)
To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
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To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
(intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
(intransitive) To commit an error, make a mistake.
(n)
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
(idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
(figurative) An error or mistake.
(heading, physical) To strike.
A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
(adj)
hesitant, halting
(intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(intransitive) To make a croak sound.
To hit, slap or strike.
(intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
(intransitive) To withdraw from a position, go back.
Having a powerful effect; forceful, telling, strong, convincing, effective.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To find or learn something for the first time.
(transitive) To bring to a state of deadlock.
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
(intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
(transitive) To lower into a liquid.
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.
(transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
(intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
(intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
A wobbling motion.
One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
(intransitive) (figurative) To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
A misstep; a stumble.
(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
Alternative form of misstep. [A step that is wrong, a false step.]
Alternative form of slip-up. [(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.]
Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent or inept; showing little or no skill.
A mistake or fail.
(obsolete) misstep; misbehaviour
A humiliating mistake.
An accident, mistake, or problem.
A temporary failure; a slip.
A tendency to fumble.
(idiomatic) An adventure or active endeavor that is characterized by, often humorous, errors.
(idiomatic) Alternative form of stumbling block. [(idiomatic) A hindrance, obstacle or impediment; an opportunity for error.]
An error.
An accidental mishap or misfortune.
(idiomatic) A hindrance, obstacle or impediment; an opportunity for error.
(obsolete) A mistake.
A person who floats.
The act of making a blunder.
To fail in an attempt to grab something
(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
A slip, lapse, or error.
A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.
(informal) A mistake or fiasco; something that has gone wrong.
A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public; a social blunder; a breach of etiquette.
A blunder.
(informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.
(idiomatic) A mistake in speech.
The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
(typically uncountable) Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
One who, or that which, snaps.
To trip by mistake.
(transitive) To strike badly or incorrectly.
(informal) A mistake or blunder.
(slang) A mistake or problem.
To flip badly or in error.
Misspelling of stutter. [A speech disorder characterized by stuttering.]
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
A lessening of performance or achievement.
(colloquial) A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
Someone who habitually makes mistakes or blunders.
Bad luck, misfortune.
One who blunders.
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
A disastrous mistake.
(rare) A waterfall that falls in the form of fine mist.
Alternative spelling of mess-up. [(informal) A mistake or fiasco; something that has gone wrong.]
(obsolete, transitive) To escape, to slip away from.
(ambitransitive) To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
A tap on a touch screen device that is misplaced or otherwise accidental.
A sudden or unexpected failure.
(US, informal) A mistake or error.
The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle.
Intoxication.
(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.