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Meanings of bumble in English

Portuguese
borrar
Catalan
espifiar
Spanish
arruinar

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

borrar
Portuguese
tropeçar
Catalan
entrebancar-se
Spanish
tropezar

Speak haltingly.

tropeçar
Usage of bumble in English
1
Rusty patched bumble bee proposed for U.S. endangered species status The U.S.
Reuters
2
A bumble-bee alighted and strolled on the crown of his Panama hat.
Five Tales
3
When my godson grows up, he wants to be a bumble bee.
The Irish Times
4
Children, have you ever seen a wild bees' nest- arealbumble-bees 'home
Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
5
Bees, bumble bees, and even wasps were the victims of his strange voracity.
The Irish Times
6
I noticed a foraging bumble bee with a number of parasites on it.
The Irish Times
7
The bumble-bee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
8
A bumble-bee sailed across from over the Edge of the World.
Tales of Wonder
9
The bumble-bees had no more melodious hum than the Brook Farmers.
Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
10
The buccaneer bumble-bee sometimes tries to rifle it of its sweets.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
11
But mice eat bumble-bees and cats eat mice and old maids keep cats.
The Golden Road
12
Canon Horniblow boomed and droned, like some unctuous giant bumble-bee, from the reading-desk.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
13
Meanwhile, up and down the lane, the darting, droning, musical bumble-bees.
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
14
This red clover is enriched, sweetened, and fructified by bumble bees.
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. / A Weekly Jour...
15
A boy in the village told me that bumble-bees have 'got no spears.'
The Spinners
16
Full of plans for refurnishing and redecorating, she was busy as a bumble-bee.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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Bumble through the time
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