foozle

verb

Definition of foozlenext
as in to fumble
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way foozled the attempt to move the couch into the apartment and tore the fabric on the arms

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foozle
  1. fumble
  2. blow
  3. ruin
  4. screw up
  5. boggle
  6. murder
  7. botch
  8. destroy
Verb
  • Because all that most people remember is Musk fumbling through lines while dressed as Wario.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Buccaneers recover Rohan Nadkarni Travis Kelce fumbles after a short reception, and the Buccaneers recover!
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of fumble
Verb
  • Without breaking stride, Hunter blew past four more Utah defenders and hopped into the end zone, a broken play transformed into a work of art.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Oldenburg’s ode to Mies van der Rohe’s signature pocket square, the 12-foot fiberglass Handkerchief, will blow toward Park Avenue, and inside, a giant cloth saw will hug the walls and floor.
    Morgan Meier, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of blow
Verb
  • Lobby group Family Business UK said tens of thousands of family-run businesses and farms will be ruined by this change due to lower levels of inheritance tax relief.
    Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The ground floors of thousands of homes have been ruined.
    Hernán Muñoz and Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of ruin
Verb
  • Myers nails the realistic teen who is a far cry from the unflappable Nancy Drew, screwing up plenty and often terrified of what she’s gotten herself into.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • My first assumption on the hunt with Walz was that somebody had screwed up, failing to place the birds in the pre-planned locations.
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of screw up
Verb
  • Kate Fox: People don’t realize Hocus Pocus is fiction, which boggles my mind.
    Shannon Carlin, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There are so many questions related to this that boggle the mind: why doesn’t Ashley fight harder for Joanne to make this a priority?
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of boggle
Verb
  • Portrait of an Indigenous Womxn [Removed] commemorated murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The onetime president pretended to be murdered in a 1963 homemade spy movie.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of murder
Verb
  • Her 80-year-old father, John, has long accused local police of botching their investigation.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Alabama had been accused of botching an execution attempt using lethal injection, the default method of putting inmates to death.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of botch
Verb
  • Homes, roads and community spaces in the path of Helene have been destroyed.
    Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • There were no fatalities but two people were seriously injured with severe burns from a powerful explosion Tuesday night that destroyed several condominiums and heavily damaged others in Orion Township, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of destroy
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“Foozle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foozle. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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