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   Blunder , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blundered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.]
   To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
   Swift.
   
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   To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
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   I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
   And blunders on, and staggers every pace.
   Dryden.
   
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   To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.
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   Blunder, v. t.
   To cause to blunder. [Obs.]  “To blunder an adversary.”  
   Ditton.
   
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   To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
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   He blunders and confounds all these together.
   Stillingfleet.
   
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   Blunder, n.
   Confusion; disturbance. [Obs.]
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   A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
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   Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull.  An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake.  A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.
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