Difference between Trip and Stumble

What is the difference between Trip and Stumble?

Trip as a noun is a journey. while Stumble as a noun is a fall or trip

Trip

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A journey. A stumble or misstep. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations. A faux pas, a social error.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot. To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble. To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch. To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs. To journey, to make a trip.

Example sentence: Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Stumble

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a fall or tripan error or blunder

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to trip or fallto make a mistake or have trouble

Example sentence: You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

We hope you now know whether to use Trip or Stumble in your sentence.

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