BOGGLES Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

boggles

verb

present tense third-person singular of boggle

as in blows

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 boggles Why someone would want a plush Javert, even in bear form, boggles the mind. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 July 2026 Just thinking about how much true, false, and plain crazy stuff has been written about you boggles the mind. — Bryan West, USA Today, 12 June 2026 Go Fishing The amount and variety of fish in Lake Superior boggles the mind. — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026 The number of heating and cooling systems and heat exchangers and radiators that is throughout that powertrain boggles the mind. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 3 June 2026 The hypocrisy boggles the mind. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026 How anyone ascended Drifter’s Escape truly boggles the mind. — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 16 Mar. 2026 And to say stuff to try to undermine the United States in the midst of a world-changing conflict just boggles my mind. — NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026 Raising windshield wipers is a practice that likely boggles those unaccustomed to winter weather. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025

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The Las Vegas spectacle, which opened to the public in August 2025, already blows audiences around with tornado-force wind, shakes them with haptic seats, sends giant winged monkeys flying overhead and drops hundreds of foam apples from the ceiling.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
By the time Frey and Felder nearly came to blows backstage in the summer of 1980, however, those threads were too frayed to hold.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Aug. 2026

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T cells, a type of immune cell that detects and destroys infected or abnormal cells, normally perform this inspection.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

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