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English
Verb
blunder'd
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of blunder
1708, [Jonathan Swift], “To Their Excellencies, &c. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who Must Starve, and Die a Maid, if It Miscarries.”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. , London: H. Hills, , published 1709, →OCLC, page 13:So, as the Devil would have it, before I was aware, out I blunder’d, / Parſon, ſaid I, can you caſt a Nativity, when a Body’s plunder’d?
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 293:But in this matter it is you who are to lead. You must set the example,—If others have blunder’d, it is your place to put them right, and shew them what true delicacy is.
1819, Lord Byron, The Works of Lord Byron, volume II, London: John Murray, , page 454:Some people thought the ship was lost, and some / That he had somehow blunder’d into debt, / And did not like the thoughts of steering home; […]
1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, , published 6, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 162:“Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.