as in blows
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
I boggled my first effort to make homemade pasta
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Recent Examples of boggles
Raising windshield wipers is a practice that likely boggles those unaccustomed to winter weather.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
There’s so much richness happening in the lives of these characters, genuinely, and that boggles my mind.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boggles
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On a recent morning in midtown Manhattan, Spike Lee blows on an imaginary pair of dice before hurling them to the ground.—
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Brunson fakes the swing to the right corner, blows past VJ Edgecombe, gets both feet into the paint, draws two defenders and finds OG Anunoby in the left corner.—
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The Seahawks are a high-turnover team on both sides of the ball, but the 49ers have forced just two takeaways in the season series — both fumbles in the opener.—
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The Honda backs up a few feet as the agent fumbles at the door handle.—
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Accordingly, the treatments misprescribed can be ineffective at best and harmful at worst, all while the parasite further destroys the cornea.—
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The bill also establishes a Class A misdemeanor if someone, without authorization of the patients, alters, forges, conceals or destroys a request for medication or rescission of a request for medication to affect a health care decision.—
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“Boggles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boggles. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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