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91blunder — blunderer, n. blunderingly, adv. /blun deuhr/, n. 1. a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That s your second blunder this morning. v.i. 2. to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance: Without my glasses I blundered… …
92pass over — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To traverse] Syn. travel through, go over, move over, go across; see cross 1 . 2. [To ignore] Syn. dismiss, overlook, neglect; see disregard . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To pretend not to see: blink (at), connive at,… …
93wink at — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. connive, pass over, gloss over, condone, pretend not to see, excuse, permit, forgive, turn a blind eye toward. Ant. censure*, frown upon, revile. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To pretend not to see: blink (at), connive at …
94connive at — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To pretend not to see: blink (at), disregard, ignore, pass over, wink at. Idioms: be blind to, close (or shut) one s eyes to, look the other way, turn a blind eye to. See SEE. II verb See connive …
95blind — [OE] The connotations of the ultimate ancestor of blind, Indo European *bhlendhos, seem to have been not so much ‘sightlessness’ as ‘confusion’ and ‘obscurity’. The notion of someone wandering around in actual or mental darkness, not knowing… …
96blunder — [14] When blunder first entered the language, it meant ‘stumble around blindly, bumping into things’, which gives a clue to its possible ultimate connection with blind. Its probable source was Old Norse blundra ‘shut one’s eyes’, forerunner of… …
97blunt — [12] Blunt originally meant ‘dull, obtuse, foolish’ in English, and it has been speculated that behind it there lay an earlier ‘dull of sight’, linking the word with blind. A possible source would be a derivative of Old Norse blunda ‘shut one’s… …
98blunder — {{11}}blunder (n.) mid 14c., apparently from BLUNDER (Cf. blunder) (v.), though of about the same age. {{12}}blunder (v.) mid 14c., to stumble about blindly, from a Scandinavian source akin to O.N. blundra shut one s eyes, from PIE root *bhlendh… …
99connive at — 1. Purposely overlook, make light of, pretend not to see, shut one s eyes to, for bear to censure, wink at, blink. 2. Be knowing or consenting to, secretly and indirectly promote, allow by inaction …
100ignore — v. a. 1. Regard as unknown, shut one s eyes to, leave out of view, not recognize, not take into account, disregard, neglect, utterly overlook. 2. (Law.) Reject, set aside …
