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bumblebum‧ble /ˈbʌmbəl/ verb [intransitive] bumbleOrigin: 1500-1600 Probably from bungle VERB TABLEbumble |
Present | I, you, we, they | bumble | | he, she, it | bumbles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | bumbled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have bumbled | | he, she, it | has bumbled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had bumbled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will bumble | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have bumbled |
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Present | I | am bumbling | | he, she, it | is bumbling | | you, we, they | are bumbling | Past | I, he, she, it | was bumbling | | you, we, they | were bumbling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been bumbling | | he, she, it | has been bumbling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been bumbling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be bumbling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been bumbling |
- Officials bumbled through their explanations of why the hospital had been bombed.
- Despite Dulles's bumbling, these interests were secure.
- Freedom party scandals as well as bumbled performances by some of its ministers probably hurt the party as well.
- He bumbled around for a bit, trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps.
- Neither Torres nor Gutierrez Varea seems to have figured out what to do about the bumbling, controlling Michael.
- Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
- The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
- They were introduced by Jack's bumbling old friend Schultz.
- You may know it as an eccentric home to raw-boned miners, bumbling Biospherians and one fine little hilltop saloon.
1 (also bumble on) to speak in a confused way, so that no one can understand you: What was Karl bumbling on about?2 (also bumble around) to move in an unsteady way |