Usually means: Mistake due to careless oversight.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. blunder: Merriam-Webster
  2. blunder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blunder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blunder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blunder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blunder, blunder: Wordnik
  7. blunder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. blunder: Wiktionary
  9. blunder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blunder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blunder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Blunder, blunder: Dictionary.com
  13. blunder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blunder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blunder (TV series), Blunder (chess), Blunder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blunder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blunder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blunder: Rhymezone
  19. blunder, blunder (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blunder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Blunder: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. blunder: FreeDictionary.org
  23. blunder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. blunder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. blunder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. blunder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. blunder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blunder: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blunder: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blunder: Backgammon
  2. Blunder: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
noun:  (chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
verb:  (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
verb:  (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
verb:  (chess, intransitive) To make a very bad move.
verb:  (chess, transitive) To make a very bad move and thereby cause the loss of (a piece).

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