Scramble vs Stumble - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between scramble and stumble

is that scramble is to ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity while stumble is to make a mistake or have trouble.

In transitive terms the difference between scramble and stumble

is that scramble is to gather or collect by scrambling while stumble is to cause to stumble or trip.

As an interjection scramble

is shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

scramble

English

Interjection

scramble!

(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.

Verb

(scrambl)

To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.

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* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.

(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.

I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.

To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.

(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.

(sports) To partake in motocross.

To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.

To gather or collect by scrambling.

to scramble up wealth

(Marlowe)

To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

* Milton

Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.

Derived terms

* scrambled eggs

Noun

(en noun)

A rush or hurry

(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.

A motocross race

Any frantic period of activity.

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Antonyms

* sortie

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs

stumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

A fall, trip or substantial misstep.

An error or blunder.

A clumsy walk.

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Synonyms

* (a blunder) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko * See also

Verb

(stumbl)

To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.

* Sir Walter Scott

He stumbled up the dark avenue.

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To make a mistake or have trouble.

To cause to stumble or trip.

(figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

* Milton

False and dazzling fires to stumble men.

* John Locke

One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.

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

* Dryden

Ovid stumbled , by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.

* C. Smart

Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.

Derived terms

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