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Meanings of blunder in English

Portuguese
fiasco
Catalan
bunyol
Spanish
disparate

An embarrassing mistake.

fiasco
Portuguese
ejacular
Catalan
deixar anar

Utter impulsively.

ejacular
Synonyms
Examples for "blurt"
Examples for "blurt"
1
Or should he simply blurt out that his family were all soul-eaters?
Servant of a dark god
2
It seemed wrong just to blurt out the truth, considering the circumstances.
Dead air
3
The things you blurt out suddenly just as you leave a room.
East of the sun
4
You might as well tell me before you blurt it by accident.
Rakes and radishes
5
But they tend to blurt the first thing that comes to mind.
Man in the Middle
1
Yet a detective knows that many sex offenders never manage to ejaculate.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
2
Thus, this protein marks a subpopulation of sperm cells in the ejaculate.
Pubmed
3
The housekeeper now began to ejaculate in broken sentences, The base creature!
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
4
The innkeeper flung his head back to ejaculate, and murmured, 'Barto Rizzo!
Vittoria — Volume 4
5
As a consequence, the ejaculate is formed of prostatic fluid only.
Pubmed
1
Or should he simply blurt out that his family were all soul-eaters?
Servant of a dark god
2
It seemed wrong just to blurt out the truth, considering the circumstances.
Dead air
3
The things you blurt out suddenly just as you leave a room.
East of the sun
4
For he was always afraid I might blurt out the whole story.
In Those Days: The Story of an Old Man
5
She did not help him, and he could only blurt out bluntly.
Of Human Bondage
1
He could say nothing at first, but managed finally to blunder out:
The Wolf's Long Howl
2
No man can mistake it, or well blunder out of it.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
3
But, Anita, do not blunder out of one mistake into another.
The Deluge
4
How came he to blunder out such tidings to thee?
Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland
5
Run down in the night by a British liner that blundered into the fighting in trying to blunder out.
The War in the Air
Spanish
pecar

Commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake.

pecar

A foolish error, especially one made in public.

Usage of blunder in English
1
We find a similar blunder in Spain, in the time of Cervantes:-
Tales and Novels — Volume 04
2
Volvo attributes the blunder to a battery problem caused by human error.
Wired
3
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has already apologised for the border blunder.
Radio NZ
4
That incident, which NATO called a tragic blunder, triggered widespread violent protests.
Reuters
5
Women are a blunder in the creation, and must take the consequences.
Esther
6
The blunder has been revealed to be much greater than first thought.
Radio NZ
7
It was also, as some management sources privately acknowledge, a major blunder.
The Irish Times
8
In all the classes I attended, I made some kind of blunder.
Botchan (Master Darling)
9
In bitterness of fear and self-reproach he at once realized his blunder.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
10
This blunder in policy may perhaps be attributed to the following cause.
The Duchesse of Langeais
11
It is simply waiting for someone to blunder in down the hall.
The Guardian
12
May's next major blunder was to call the June 9 parliamentary election.
Reuters
13
Apologize to the lady for the blunder of your godfathers and godmothers.
Winter Evening Tales
14
In 1610, this stupendous crime and blunder-unparalleledeven in Spanish history-wasperpetrated.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
15
Despite being below their best until the Doucouré blunder, they passed it.
The Guardian
16
The first is fanciful but it would explain Harper's economic forecast blunder.
The Guardian
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