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bumble, v.
(bumbled, bumbles, bumbling)

speak haltingly
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bumble falter stammer stutter

sample sentences

"The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

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stammerer stammer

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stutterer stutter

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falter

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hypernym

speak, talk, mouth, utter, verbalize, verbalise

walk unsteadily
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bumble falter stumble

sample sentences

"The drunk man stumbled about"

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stumble

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hypernym

walk

make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble louse up mess up mishandle muck up muff screw up spoil

sample sentences

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

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spoilage spoiling spoil

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fuckup

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flub

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foul-up

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mess-up

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botch botcher

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bumbler

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fumbler

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screwup

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ballup

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bungle bungler

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fluff

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hypernym

fail, go wrong, miscarry