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单词 boggles
释义

boggle

verb

bog·​gle ˈbä-gəl How to pronounce boggle (audio)
boggled; boggling ˈbä-g(ə-)liŋ How to pronounce boggle (audio)

intransitive verb

1
: to start with fright or amazement : be overwhelmed
the mind boggles at the research needed
2
: to hesitate because of doubt, fear, or scruples

transitive verb

1
: mishandle, bungle
2
: to overwhelm with wonder or bewilderment
boggle the mind
boggle noun

Synonyms

  • blow
  • bobble
  • bollix (up)
  • boot
  • botch
  • bugger (up)
  • bumble
  • bungle
  • butcher
  • dub
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foozle
  • foul up
  • fumble
  • goof (up)
  • louse up
  • mangle
  • mess (up)
  • muck up
  • muff
  • murder
  • screw up
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Example Sentences

I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta
Recent Examples on the Web This seat has a history that would boggle your mind. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022 But Beltway financial regulators are lately showing a similar ability to boggle the mind. James Freeman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022 This seat has a history that would boggle your mind. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022 This seat has a history that would boggle your mind. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022 This seat has a history that would boggle your mind. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2022 In the past year alone, the once-outre Arkestra has enjoyed institutional recognition that would even boggle the mind of its prescient founder. Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022 This seat has a history that would boggle your mind. Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2022 To tweak the settings, go into your subclass menu and let your eyes boggle at all the options. Boone Ashworth, Wired, 21 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

perhaps from bogle

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

boggles

verb

present tense third-person singular of boggle
as in blows
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • blows
  • fumbles
  • destroys
  • mangles
  • ruins
  • bungles
  • murders
  • botches
  • dubs
  • fluffs
  • spoils
  • flubs
  • butchers
  • boots
  • mucks up
  • fouls up
  • muddles
  • damages
  • screws up
  • muffs
  • impairs
  • wrecks
  • hurts
  • bollixes (up)
  • mars
  • bumbles
  • foozles
  • bobbles
  • injures
  • mutilates
  • louses up
  • blunders
  • buggers (up)
  • goofs (up)
  • blights
  • vitiates
  • flaws
  • harms
  • messes (up)
  • piffles
  • mismanages
  • blemishes
  • gums (up)
  • mishandles

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • improves
  • helps
  • enhances
  • refines
  • ameliorates
  • rectifies
  • reforms
  • betters
  • remedies
  • repairs
  • meliorates
  • doctors
  • renovates
  • reconditions
  • revamps
  • fixes
  • patches
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