All booboos synonyms
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B b noun booboos
- lesion β an injury; hurt; wound.
- indignity β an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
- twinge β a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
- abrasion β An abrasion is an area on a person's body where the skin has been scraped.
- stab β to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- discomfiture β Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- affront β If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- misery β wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- deformation β the act of deforming; distortion
- mutilation β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- inadvertence β the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- misapplication β to make a wrong application or use of.
- illusion β something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- misinterpretation β An instance of misinterpreting.
- misstatement β to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
- neglect β to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- misprint β a mistake in printing, as an instance of printing a letter or word other than that intended.
- over-estimate β to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- underestimation β to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
- fluff β light, downy particles, as of cotton.
- impropriety β the quality or condition of being improper; incorrectness.
- lapse β an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- solecism β a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- trip β a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
- slip β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- boner β a blunder
- indecorum β indecorous behavior or character.
- bungle β If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- mistake β an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- boo-boo β A boo-boo is a silly mistake or blunder.
- flub β a blunder.
- muff β sheet glass made from a blown cylinder (muff) that is split and flattened.
- howler β a person, animal, or thing that howls.
- slip-up β a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
- misstep β a wrong step.
- whoops β a loud cry or shout, as of excitement or joy.
- muddle β to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- blunder β A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- miscalculation β An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- miscue β a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- snafu β a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- wale β something that is selected as the best; choice.
- mark β Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837β1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897β1904.
verb booboos
- blow β When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
- deviate β To deviate from something means to start doing something different or not planned, especially in a way that causes problems for others.
- trespass β Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
- misjudge β Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
- misapprehend β to misunderstand.
- fall β to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
- offend β to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.