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# bumble

«bumble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to hum or buzz, as a bee does when it flies about** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (bumble, bumbles, bumbled, bumbling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bumble is to hum or buzz, as a bee does when it flies about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/#m1)

2) To bumble is to move or talk in a clumsy, muddled way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a bee or a little creature buzzing in a tale, such as «little humble-bumble-bee»; in talk, a person who moves or speaks in a muddle

### examples

- The bee began to bumble among the roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/#x1)
- He bumbled through his speech and lost his place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/#x2)
- Mr Bumble Bee bumbled round the garden all afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bumble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bumble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.