shuffle vs stumble

shuffle

verb
  • To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. 

  • To put in a random order. 

  • To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. 

  • To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. 

  • To change; modify the order of something. 

  • To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. 

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

noun
  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. 

  • The act of shuffling cards. 

  • A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot. 

  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player. 

  • A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth. 

  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion. 

stumble

verb
  • To trip or fall; to walk clumsily. 

  • To cause to stumble or trip. 

  • To make a mistake or have trouble. 

  • To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against. 

  • To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall. 

noun
  • An error or blunder. 

  • A fall, trip or substantial misstep. 

  • A clumsy walk. 

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