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Adjective: bungled  búng-guld
  1. Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
    "a bungled job";
    - botched
Verb: bungle  búng-gul
  1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    "I bungled the dinner and we had to eat out";
    - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff [informal], blow, flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], balls up [informal], make a hash of [informal]
     
  2. Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
    "I bungled it!"

See also: unskilled

Type of: act, behave, do, fail, go wrong, miscarry

Encyclopedia: Bungle