boggle

Speech parts

1. boggle - Noun

2. boggle - Verb

Meaning

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.

To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.

To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hesitate shock overwhelm confound waver stagger startle baffle demur flabbergast bowl over stickle be reluctant marvel goblin
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Antonyms

attack continue face correct improve agree
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Hypernyms

start waffle jump surprise hesitate waver

Phrases with the word

boggle at boggle the mind

Derivatives

boggled boggling

Examples

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind. Robert Jordan

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle. Sung Hi Lee

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. Annie Dillard

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. Robert South

It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. Winston Churchill

Close letter words and terms

Boggio Boggis boggish boggle at boggle the mind boggle-eyed