BOGGLED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

boggled

verb

past tense of boggle

as in fumbled

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 boggled The magician boggled audiences with his card tricks and fantastical illusions. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025 They are boggled even more when told that the Fed creating a new $10,000 out of nothing for one borrowing bank could increase the total national money supply, currency plus bank deposits, several times. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025

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In the bathroom, my fingers fumbled in the inner pocket of my jacket, searching for the passport.

— Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Despite rebounding with the wildly entertaining F9 in 2021, the Fast franchise fumbled the 10th chapter, which underperformed at the box office and didn’t exactly get fans hyped for the follow-up.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026

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The influx all but ruined Sutter’s extensive land holdings around Sacramento, originally dubbed New Helvetia.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Brentford will be hoping promising midfielder Antoni Milambo can contribute after his debut season was ruined by an ACL injury in October.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have effectively dubbed themselves amateur yeoman, putting the ultrarichs’ hobby of tending to the land in the spotlight.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
The intense 2015-2016 El Niño was widely dubbed Godzilla, as people struggled to compare it to the very strong El Niño in 1997-1998.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

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If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

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