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Adjective: bungled  búng-guld
  1. Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
    "a bungled job";
    - botched
Verb: bungle  búng-gul
  1. Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
    "I bungled it!"
     
  2. 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]

See also: unskilled

Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, fail, go wrong, miscarry

Encyclopedia: Bungle