noun, verb
noun a stupid or careless mistake:
to make a terrible blunder * a series of political blunders
verb [V] to make a stupid or careless mistake:
The government had blundered in its handling of the affair.
PHRASALVERBS
blunder about, around, etc. to move around in an awkward way, knocking into things, as if you cannot see where you are going:
I could hear him blundering around the bathroom in the dark.
blunder into sth
1 to knock into sth because you are awkward or are not able to see
2 to accidentally find yourself in a difficult or unpleasant situation:
She realized that she had blundered into a trap.
blunder on to continue doing sth in a careless or stupid way:
I wasn't sure he understood what I was saying, but I blundered on with my explanation.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for blunder is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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