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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bungled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Bungling.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
     Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.]
     To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. t.
     To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; --
     sometimes with up.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I always had an idea that it would be bungled. --Byron.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, n.
     A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Those errors and bungles which are committed.
                                                    --Cudworth.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bungled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Bungling.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
     Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.]
     To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. t.
     To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; --
     sometimes with up.
  
           I always had an idea that it would be bungled. --Byron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Bungle \Bun"gle\, n.
     A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
  
           Those errors and bungles which are committed.
                                                    --Cudworth.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  bungle
       n : an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer,
            foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo]
       v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
            we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the
            difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch,
             bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
             screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, fluff, bollix,
             bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle,
             louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
       2: spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     Αγγλικά n.
     η ατσαλιά, η τσαπατσουλιά, η κακοτεχνία, η προχειρότητα
     Αγγλικά vb.
     ενεργώ άτσαλα, αδέξια ή τσαπατσούλικα

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     n.
     A botched#Adjective or incompetently handled#Adjective action or
  situation; a blunder#Noun.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To incompetently perform (a task#Noun); to
  ruin#Verb (something) through incompetent#Adjective action; to botch up,
  to bumble#Verb.
     2 (lb en intransitive) To act#Verb or work#Verb incompetently; to
  fumble#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     n.
     A botched#Adjective or incompetently handled#Adjective action or
  situation; a blunder#Noun.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To incompetently perform (a task#Noun); to
  ruin#Verb (something) through incompetent#Adjective action; to botch up,
  to bumble#Verb.
     2 (lb en intransitive) To act#Verb or work#Verb incompetently; to
  fumble#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     n.
     A botched#Adjective or incompetently handled#Adjective action or
  situation; a blunder#Noun.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To incompetently perform (a task#Noun); to
  ruin#Verb (something) through incompetent#Adjective action; to botch up,
  to bumble#Verb.
     2 (lb en intransitive) To act#Verb or work#Verb incompetently; to
  fumble#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     n.
     A botched#Adjective or incompetently handled#Adjective action or
  situation; a blunder#Noun.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To incompetently perform (a task#Noun); to
  ruin#Verb (something) through incompetent#Adjective action; to botch up,
  to bumble#Verb.
     2 (lb en intransitive) To act#Verb or work#Verb incompetently; to
  fumble#Verb.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     Englanti vb.
     hutiloida, tunaroida

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  bungle
     Engelska vb.
     1 förfuska
     2 misslyckas, fumla, klåpa

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/
  الفشل

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  bungle //ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l// 
  обърквам, работя несръчно
  to incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  zpackat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  fušerství

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  bwnglera 

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  dallgeibio 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/
  Murks , Pfusch 
     Synonyms: botch, bodge, flub-up
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  etw. vermasseln, verpatzen, vermurksen, vergeigen, verbocken, versemmeln, verpfuschen 
        "They botched/bungled the job."  - Sie haben's vermasselt.
     Synonyms: botch, bodge, bobble, foozle, flub sth.
  
   see: bobbling, bungling, foozling, flubbing, bobbled, bungled, foozled, flubbed, bobbles, bungles, foozles, bobbled, bungled, foozled
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  bungle //ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l// 
  hutiloida, tyriä
  to incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  bungle /bʌŋgl/
  gâcher

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/ 
  1. घपला~करना
        "I bungled it!"

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/
  loša izrada, petljati, pobrkati, pokvariti

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/
  kontár munka

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  bungle /ˈbʌŋgəl/ 
    partaczyć, fuszerować

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  bungle /bʌŋgl/
  borrar, fazer às pressas, trabalhar mal

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  bungle //ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l// 
  fumla, klåpa
  to incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  bungle /bˈʌŋɡəl/
  1. acemice iş yapmak, yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak
  2. acemice yapılan iş, beceriksizlik.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "bungle":
     bad job, bat out, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blow, blunder,
     blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble,
     boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bugger, bull,
     bumble, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, dash off,
     do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, err, error,
     etourderie, fake up, faux pas, fiasco, flounder, flub, fluff,
     flunk, foozle, fuck up, fudge up, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, goof,
     goof up, gum up, hash, indiscretion, jury-rig, knock off,
     knock out, knock together, lapse, lash up, louse up, lumber,
     make a blunder, make a misstep, mar, mess, mess up, miscue,
     mismanage, miss, miss the mark, misspeak, mistake, muck up, muddle,
     muff, murder, off day, patch, patch together, patch up,
     play havoc with, pound out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew,
     sad work, screw up, slap up, slip, slip up, snafu, solecism, spoil,
     stumble, stupidity, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out,
     toss together, trifle with, trip, washout, whomp up
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  v. 拙劣地工作,粗率地作,失败;
  n. 粗劣,失败,笨拙;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vt.
     vi. 拙劣地工作,粗制滥造,失败
     n. 粗劣,失败,笨拙

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