Synonyms of booting

booting

verb

present participle of boot

as in fumbling

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

he booted the answer of what should have been an easy question

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbling
• blowing
• murdering
• dubbing
• ruining
• destroying
• botching
• mangling
• spoiling
• bungling
• butchering
• bobbling
• fluffing
• muffing
• screwing up
• mucking up
• fouling up
• bumbling
• flubbing
• marring
• goofing (up)
• wrecking
• damaging
• injuring
• messing (up)
• boggling
• buggering (up)
• impairing
• bollixing (up)
• mutilating
• lousing up
• blundering
• hurting
• foozling
• muddling
• gumming (up)
• harming
• blighting
• flawing
• mismanaging
• blemishing
• vitiating
• mishandling
• piffling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• helping
• reforming
• enhancing
• remedying
• rectifying
• refining
• ameliorating
• bettering
• repairing
• fixing
• patching
• meliorating
• renovating
• revamping
• reconditioning
• doctoring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of booting

The travelling supporters were perched behind the goal for a perfect view of the wonder strike, and Ballard made a beeline straight towards them, booting the advertising hoarding for good measure. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Predatory towing, which can include booting and towing at exorbitant prices, affects residents, small business owners and truck drivers across Charlotte. — Laura Horne, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026

The affair was a lopsided route booting the Spanish out of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Erling Haaland did that for Norway, heading in the first goal, and then booting a blast past everyone for a goal. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

Balogun’s fancy footwork broke a scoreless deadlock 45 minutes into the action, booting a left-footed shot through the goalie’s outstretched legs. — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 2 July 2026

Then in 2023, researchers discovered LogoFail, a series of critical vulnerabilities found UEFIs booting up just about every Windows and Linux system in the world. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026

For example, OpenAI lets users send its default model 10 messages every five hours before booting them to a weaker version. — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 4 June 2026

Upon booting the game up, a swift run of horns plays the main theme, a magnificent game-spanning refrain which appears during the mightiest moments, from title screen to credits. — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 9 May 2026