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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
            Bumble across language varieties
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