boggling

verb

present participle of boggle
as in blowing
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 boggling Hamaguchi told Deadline that the team painstakingly cemented Vincent and Yuffie into irrevocable mainstays while also giving Zack (not available in my preview) an increasingly important role in the trilogy’s larger time-boggling mystery. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026 The line of aircraft coming in for a landing looks mind boggling to handle but the ATC’s do it without incident. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The audience is relieved of the prior editions’ boggling tsunami wall of zombies. — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 May 2026 Advertisement All eyes will be on Ilia Malinin, for the stunning array of quadruple jumps that the Virginia native pulls off with a mind boggling ease. — Alice Park, Time, 12 Jan. 2026 Jerry's approach is so mind boggling. — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025 The tragedy side of things is addressed rather offhandedly — occasionally the movie will remember the boggling grief and betrayal at its center, only to shrug it off again just as quickly. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025 Trying to move in earlier to accommodate a pittance of an audience is mind boggling stupidity. — Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 In a world where licenses and software locks forbid folks from simply plugging in a replacement component, the thought of a major company encouraging its customers to break out a soldering iron is mind boggling. — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boggling
  1. blowing
  2. fumbling
  3. ruining
Verb
  • Officials had budgeted $100,000 for the program and wound up blowing through that in just a few hours.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • While animal rights advocates have pushed for Congress to adopt legislation that would phase out the fur industry, buying out farmers over the course of a year to end the practice once and for all, winds in Congress are blowing the other direction.
    — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of blowing
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  • After not fumbling all year and not committing a turnover throughout the month of October, Young got strip-sacked in the second quarter and Tampa Bay returned it for a touchdown.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The Seahawks had one of the worst turnovers in the NFL this season, fumbling in their own end zone and handing the 49ers a touchdown with 13 seconds left in the first half.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of fumbling
Verb
  • The song is a cautionary tale about a brothel in New Orleans known for ruining many poor girls.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • As wet electrodes get thicker, the liquid binder migrates unevenly during drying, ruining the battery‘s structure.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of ruining

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“Boggling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boggling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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