BOOTED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

booted

verb

Definition of booted

past tense of boot

as in fumbled

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way he booted the answer of what should have been an easy question

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Recent Examples of booted Collins tried earlier this summer to get Fishback booted from the ballot, alleging Fishback had not met the state's seven-year minimum residency requirement. — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Francisco Lindor has booted way too many balls this season, that’s a fact. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 Slipknot has apparently booted turntablist Sid Wilson from the band. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026 Little League on Monday ruled that Tulsa National Little League's 12U team had an ineligible player on the roster and booted it from the Southwest Region Tournament, the final stop before the Little League World Series. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 O’Hare booted members of the public from the room for the meeting for disrupting decorum, instead inviting speakers to address the commissioners one-by-one. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2026 Morton read her lines aloud on set with Phoenix during production was booted from the movie and replaced by Scarlett Johansson in post production. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026 In May, police and city workers returned to Jose Rizal Park and again booted out dealers and addicts, preparing the park for a renovation. — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026 The Padres tied the game in the bottom of the seventh before Bogaerts booted what would have been the third out in the top of the eighth. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026

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Lake Brantley appeared to have picked up the first down on third down but the ball was fumbled backwards to put the Patriots in fourth and long.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
After Carter Jensen flew out to deep center field, Caglianone tagged from second base and kept running toward home as outfielder Andy Pages fumbled the baseball out of his glove.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of fumbled

Verb

Detectives relied on confidential informants to bust the operation – an informant who purchased drugs from Robinson blew the operation open.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Now the researchers are tracking the different types of plastic, some of which sank to the bottom of the 62-acre lake and others that eventually blew or washed ashore.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of blew

Verb

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