Synonyms of the word

bumble

• n. A confusion, jumble.
• v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
• n. A bumble-bee.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
• v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bobble

• n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
• n. (Britain) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie.
• n. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
• n. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
• n. A wobbling motion.
• v. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
• v. (US) To make a mistake in.
• v. (intransitive) To roll slowly.

bodge

• v. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• v. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
• n. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
• n. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
• n. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
• adj. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

bollix

• v. (transitive) To confuse.
• v. (transitive) To botch or bungle.
• n. confusion.
• n. mess.

bollocks

• n. (Britain, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular).
• n. (Britain, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
• n. (Ireland, vulgar) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) A contraction of the dog's bollocks.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) To break.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
• interj. (Britain, taboo, slang) Expressing anger, frustration, etc.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bollock.

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.

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.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

falter

• n. unsteadiness.
• v. To waver or be unsteady.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
• v. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
• v. To stumble.
• v. (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
• v. To hesitate in purpose or action.
• v. To cleanse or sift, as barley.

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.

fluff

• n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
• n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
• n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
• n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
• n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
• v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
• v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
• v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
• v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

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.

miscarry

• v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
• v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
• v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
• v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
• v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

mishandle

• v. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
• v. To handle incorrectly; to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

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.

muff

• n. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
• n. (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
• n. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
• n. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
• n. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
• n. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
• n. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
• n. A bird, the whitethroat.
• v. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
• v. To mishandle; to bungle.
• n. (slang) A muffin.

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.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

stammer

• v. To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
• n. The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.

stumble

• n. A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
• n. An error or blunder.
• n. A clumsy walk.
• v. (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
• v. (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
• v. (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
• v. To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon,…

stutter

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
• v. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty.
• n. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.
• n. (obsolete) One who stutters; a stammerer.

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.

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.

walk

• v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
• v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
• v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
• v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
• v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
• v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
• v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
• v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
• v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
• v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
• v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
• v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
• n. A trip made by walking.
• n. A distance walked.
• n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
• n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
• n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
• n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
• n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
• n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
• n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
• n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
• n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
• n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.