Crossword clues for blundered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blunder \Blun"der\, 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.-
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden. To blunder on.
To continue blundering.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: blunder)
Usage examples of "blundered".
He guessed he was a few paces north of Morris, but Hakeswill did not want to risk being ambushed by a tiger-striped soldier as he blundered about in search of his Captain and so he stayed put.
Learning, it blundered into the barrier wall and tumbled back into a cloud of lifted Stardust.
The lifeless optelectronic brains of the berserkers never blundered, but sometimes they were forced to make decisions based on inadequate information.
Their alien smell filled the room, until Sunbright felt like some fly blundered into a spiderweb.
Ox blundered into a golem that clamped his ankles and tangled his feet.
Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.
They usually blundered around in the area between the fences until the early morning sun or an SO-17 flame-thrower reduced their lifeless husk to a cinder, and released the tormented soul to make its way through eternity in peace.
She is as true as steel, but no one can see them together as I have done for months, and as you have done too, without knowing them to be the most mis-matched pair that ever blundered into marriage.
She picked up the nearest puppy, who had blundered up against her foot and was nosing it hopefully.
In flight from her, he blundered into a debate between two dark, intense young men without Sunmarks.
Learning, it blundered into the barrier wall and tumbled back into a cloud of lifted Stardust.
The lifeless optelectronic brains of the berserkers never blundered, but sometimes they were forced to make decisions based on inadequate information.
Their alien smell filled the room, until Sunbright felt like some fly blundered into a spiderweb.
She skittered off down the tunneland blundered into another crab-clawed golem.
Ox blundered into a golem that clamped his ankles and tangled his feet.