OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 38648

bungle

/ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embarullar
To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and…
[…] talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for a…
embarullar
To act or work incompetently; to fumble.
Physis is nothing else but the vegetable World, the Universall comprehension of Spermaticall life dispersed throughout. […] For Physis (as I said) is not the divine Understanding i…
[T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am…