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Misstep

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WordDefinition
stumbleverb(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
tripnounA journey; an excursion or jaunt.

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stumblenounA fall, trip or substantial misstep.
tripnounA journey; an excursion or jaunt.
errornoun(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
mis-stepnounAlternative form of misstep. [A step that is wrong, a false step.]
false stepnounA misstep; a stumble.
mistreadingnoun(obsolete) misstep; misbehaviour
false movenounSynonym of false step.
mismoveverb(ambitransitive) To move wrongly, incorrectly, or in error.
misfactnoun(rare, uncountable) Misinformation.
slip-upnoun(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
misgrabverbTo fail in an attempt to grab something
faux pasnounAn embarrassing or tactless blunder.
misstatementnounSomething stated wrongly; a (usually unintentionally) incorrect statement.
mispostnounA bad or wrong post.
misresultnounAn erroneous or unwanted result.
mistakenounAn error.
missmentnoun(UK, dialect, obsolete) A mistake; an error.
mistakingverb(obsolete) A mistake.
misreckoningnounA false reckoning; a miscalculation.
misdecisionnounA wrong decision; an instance of wrongly deciding.

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