Synonyms of the word

blunder

• n. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
• v. (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

bloomer

• n. An ironworker.
• n. A circular loaf of white bread.
• n. A blooming flower.
• n. One who blooms, matures, or develops.
• n. (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the…
• n. (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

blooper

• n. (informal) An error.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
• n. (informal) A film or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing mistake and/or accident during the…
• n. (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.

blurt

• v. To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly…

boner

• n. (literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
• n. (dated, baseball, slang) A blunder; a silly mistake.
• n. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

boo-boo

• n. (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
• n. (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.
• v. (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

boob

• n. (informal, pejorative) Idiot, fool.
• n. (slang) A breast, especially that of a human adult or adolescent female.
• adj. (informal, pejorative) Idiotic, foolish.
• v. To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To make a mistake.

botch

• v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
• v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
• v. To repair or mend clumsily.
• n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
• n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
• n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
• n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
• n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
• n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
• n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

bungle

• n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
• v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

ejaculate

• v. (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
• v. (intransitive) To say abruptly.
• v. (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body…
• n. Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically,…

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

flub

• n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
• v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

foul-up

• n. A disastrous mistake.

fuckup

• n. (vulgar) A serious mistake.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) One who continually makes mistakes.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) An ineffective person.

fumble

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something.
• v. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
• v. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
• v. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
• n. (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped.

goof

• n. (US) A mistake or error.
• n. (US) A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
• n. (Canada, prison slang) A child molester.
• v. (US) To make a mistake.
• v. (US) To engage in mischief.

infract

• v. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
• adj. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

pratfall

• n. A fall onto the buttocks.
• n. A humiliating mistake.
• n. A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
• v. To fall on to the buttocks.

sin

• n. (theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.
• n. A misdeed.
• n. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
• n. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
• v. (intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.
• n. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ.
• n. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

transgress

• v. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
• v. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
• v. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
• v. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.