Verb: bungle búng-gul
- Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
"I bungled it!"
- Badly mishandle or ruin something
"I bungled the dinner and we had to eat out";
- botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]
- An embarrassing mistake
"The bungle in scheduling resulted in double-booked meeting rooms";
- blunder, blooper [N. Amer, informal], bloomer [informal], pratfall [informal], foul-up [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], botch, boner [N. Amer, informal], boo-boo [informal], boob [Brit, informal], goof [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]
Derived forms: bungled, bungling, bungles
Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, error, fail, fault, go wrong, miscarry, mistake
Encyclopedia: Bungle