blunder
/ˈblʌn.dɚ/ verb C2- To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid. · to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
- To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost]. · blunder a rook
- To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move. · blunder a draw· blunder a mate in one
- To move in an unsteady way.
- To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
He/she/it blunders · Past blundered · Past participle blundered · -ing form blundering
Verb forms
- Base form
- blunder
- He/she/it
- blunders
- Past
- blundered
- Past participle
- blundered
- -ing form
- blundering
From the library
“The blundering fool,” Holmes said, bitterly, as we drove back to our lodgings.
“I assure you it is just as hateful to me to fail in a case as it can be to you to blunder over a commission.”
Blindly we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way through gorse bushes, panting up hills and rushing down slopes, heading always in the direction whence those dreadful sounds had come.
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