stumble

- walk unsteadily;
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall;
- lurch: an unsteady uneven gait
- encounter by chance
- make an error;
- trip: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

- "The drunk man stumbled about"
- "She stumbled over the tree root"
- "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
- "She slipped up and revealed the name"
- "he recited the whole poem without a single trip";

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