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单词 blunder
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blundernoun [ C ]

uk/ˈblʌn.dər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ/

a serious mistake, usually caused by not taking care or thinking:

He said that the tax was a major political blunder.
I made a blunder by getting his name wrong.

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Faults and mistakes

  • a blot on sb's character idiom
  • aberration
  • Achilles heel
  • adrift
  • black mark
  • chink
  • clinker
  • creep in/creep into sth
  • erratum
  • error
  • failing
  • false alarm
  • false move
  • faux pas
  • lapse
  • loophole
  • misprint
  • misspell
  • mistake
  • mistaken

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blunderverb

uk/ˈblʌn.dər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ/

blunder verb (MOVE)

[ I usually + adv/prep ] to move in an awkward way:

I could hear him blundering around in the darkness.

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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty

  • bumble
  • doddery
  • falter
  • galumphing
  • hardly/barely put one foot in front of the other idiom
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • reel
  • schlep
  • shamble
  • shuffle
  • slog
  • squeeze
  • stagger
  • stumble
  • toil
  • totter
  • trip (sb) up
  • waddle

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blunder verb (MISTAKE)

[ I ] to make a serious mistake, usually because of not taking care or thinking:

Police blundered by not releasing more details about the case to focus public interest.

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Making mistakes

  • balls
  • balls (sth) up
  • bodge
  • botch
  • confuse
  • drop
  • famous last words idiom
  • goof
  • making
  • misdirect
  • misstate
  • put
  • slip up
  • speak/talk out of turn idiom
  • to err is human (to forgive divine). idiom
  • trip
  • trip (sb) up
  • turn
  • unforced
  • wrong

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blunderer
noun [ C ] uk/ˈblʌn.də.rər/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ.ɚ/
blundering
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˈblʌn.də.rɪŋ/us/ˈblʌn.dɚ.ɪŋ/

You blundering idiot! What do you think you're doing?
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