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A blunder is a foolish mistake.
"goof". "slip up", "miscue" , "faux pas", "misstep","blunder","flaw" ,"booboo",are all mistakes, "sin", "gaffe" , "lacuna". " miscalculation","fault","negligence',"dereliction" are more specialized kinds of mistakes.
she went to the teacher to apologize for her blunderThe word 'blunder' means 'mistake'. To use the word 'blunder' in a sentence you could say 'he made a massive blunder when he neglected to lock the door before leaving for work'.
By the time someone noticed the blunder, it was too late to reverse it.He made a huge blunder on his essay.
Example( you made a blunder when you forgot to spell sentence with a c after the n)
Taxation, although lately, a strong argument could be made for borrowing.
It is not one persons fault. It is a result of mistake after mistake made by both the government and people alike.
Taxation, although lately, a strong argument could be made for borrowing.
(verb - to move about in a clumsy fashion)"They heard him blunder against the trunk, which rocked violently.""The tourists were left to blunder about in a strange city."(noun- a serious or foolish error)"She made a blunder on her science test and only got a 99%.""The blunder by the Allies allowed the German forces to escape."
They have similar meanings, but not so similar as to be synonymous. A mishap is an unfortunate event or misfortune, which might be caused by a person, might be caused by a natural event, or might be caused by anything. A blunder is a terrible mistake; it is always made by a person. Only people are normally thought to blunder, because only we have the intelligence to know better than to do those things which we describe as blunders. If a mouse does something stupid, well, it's just a mouse anyway. So, while a blunder is also a mishap, not all mishaps are blunders.
McCain made a colossal blunder
Mistake