What is the meaning of bungled?

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- synonyms: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.
- usage: "I bungled it"
- synonyms: bungle

Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness.
- usage: "a bungled job"
- synonyms: botched

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