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Another word for muff

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Verb

  1. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess

    Idioms:
    See also:

    help

    correct

Noun

  1. A stupid, clumsy mistake

    See also:

    correct

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Another word for muff

Verb
  1. See also:

    fail

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • You can still buy coats in velvet with contrasting buttons and capelets - sometimes even with a matching muff.

  • Before this, Muff and Pete had been jamming with Joe, who was Pete's girlfriend's brother but he soon left.

  • My mother also carried a muff in red velvet that helped to keep her hands warm, instead of the usual flowers.

  • She has a little muff In which, from breezes rough,    Her hands find shelter.

  • I have also bought the matching travel muff for the winter time.

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