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bun·gle
 bungle
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- pronunciation:
- buhng
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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
bungles, bungling, bungled |
| definition: |
to perform badly or incompetently; botch.
She is going to sue the surgeon who bungled her operation.- synonyms:
- blow, botch, flub, foul up, goof up, mess up
- similar words:
- blunder, bollix, butcher, mangle, mar, mismanage, muddle, muff, ruin, spoil, wreck
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| related words: |
blow, hack |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to perform a task badly and incompetently.
- synonyms:
- flub, foul up, muff
- similar words:
- blunder, flounder, goof
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fault, stumble, trip |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a task that has been performed badly and incompetently.
- similar words:
- bust, debacle, failure, fiasco, flop, hash, mess, mix-up, muddle
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| related words: |
botch |
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| derivations: |
bunglingly (adv.), bungler (n.) |
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