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1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I bumbled the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit], fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, butcher, balls up, cock up [Brit], goof up
    
2. Walk unsteadily
   "The drunk man bumbled about";
   - stumble, falter
    
3. Speak haltingly
   - stutter, stammer, falter

Derived forms: bumbling, bumbles, bumbled

Type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize, walk

Encyclopedia: Bumble