Boggle
verb
To hesitate or be fearful of something.
She didn't boggle at making tough decisions to improve the company's reputation.
Often appears as...
- boggle at the idea
- boggle at the thought
verb
To be amazed or overwhelmed by something.
The complexity of the situation boggles his mind.
Often appears as...
- boggle the mind
- boggle one's mind
noun
A game printed with letters on cubes, Players make words from letters.
Boggle makes a great family board game.
verb
To hesitate or be fearful of something.
She didn't boggle at making tough decisions to improve the company's reputation.
Often appears as...
- boggle at the idea
- boggle at the thought
verb
To be amazed or overwhelmed by something.
The complexity of the situation boggles his mind.
Often appears as...
- boggle the mind
- boggle one's mind
noun
A game printed with letters on cubes, Players make words from letters.
Boggle makes a great family board game.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Fearful Hesitation
Use 'boggle' to express reluctance or fear when facing a challenging situation.
He boggled at the extent of work needed.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Resistance
'Boggle at' suggests strong opposition or resistance to something potentially negative.
She boggled at the idea of working weekends.
Pro Tip 1/2Fearful Hesitation
Use 'boggle' to express reluctance or fear when facing a challenging situation.
He boggled at the extent of work needed.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Resistance
'Boggle at' suggests strong opposition or resistance to something potentially negative.
She boggled at the idea of working weekends.
Pro Tip 1/2Fearful Hesitation
Use 'boggle' to express reluctance or fear when facing a challenging situation.
He boggled at the extent of work needed.
Pro Tip 2/2Strong Resistance
'Boggle at' suggests strong opposition or resistance to something potentially negative.
She boggled at the idea of working weekends.
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The radical possibilities...
Goldilocks planets and in exactly the right place with water and whatever that that's a very parochial assumption perhaps well if you want to find someone you can talk to then maybe not but you know I think that that if you're just looking for any form of life I think I think that's right I think that you're looking for life under the light post thank you for boggling all our minds
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Elon Musk: A future...
We've blown up quite a few rockets. So there's a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together, it's showing rockets are hard. I mean, the sheer amount of energy going through a rocket boggles the mind. So, you know, getting out of Earth's gravity well is difficult. We have a strong gravity and a thick atmosphere.
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Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
don't know why this happened it still boggles my mind then one day when I was working in the Eastern Cape actually I saw it more than once and I wasn't the only person to see it either so I wasn't going a little bit loopy wasn't big inaudible which is in the like a life for the families most of you
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
can be done by you and I they don't have to have government they can't expect government to do it all anyway but if we do have some contribution to ethics the results from mind boggling I'm telling you truthfully I've seen this property
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Toy tiles that talk to...
view the results immediately so here I'm this is a Fibonacci sequence that I'm making with a simple equation program here we have a word game that's kind of like a mash-up between Scrabble and boggle basically in every round you get
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Herring Hazards PIPE...
in numbers that seemed to boggle the imagination so many that scientists struggled to get an accurate count of their total population they are a major source of food for a multitude of the world's marine animals that scooped the
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Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
I'm boggled at how much he and his associates needed to know in order to plot this out. But most important to make it work -- and he emphasized this -- is that it took knowing the people in the communities.
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Ivory’s Historical...
biggest slave traders in the world this man was a terrorist this man trafficked tens of thousands of human beings through this building every year he traffic ivory that boggles the
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A theory of everything PIPE...
It said, "Ears pierced while you wait." There the alternative just boggles the imagination. "Oh no. Thanks though, I'll leave them here. Thanks very much.
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Unlocking the Eyes PIPE...
what boggles my mind about the eye is everything but I'm really really excited by the advances and technology made possible by research not just into the
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The radical possibilities...
Goldilocks planets and in exactly the right place with water and whatever that that's a very parochial assumption perhaps well if you want to find someone you can talk to then maybe not but you know I think that that if you're just looking for any form of life I think I think that's right I think that you're looking for life under the light post thank you for boggling all our minds
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
We've blown up quite a few rockets. So there's a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together, it's showing rockets are hard. I mean, the sheer amount of energy going through a rocket boggles the mind. So, you know, getting out of Earth's gravity well is difficult. We have a strong gravity and a thick atmosphere.
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Safari Live - Day 138 PIPE...
don't know why this happened it still boggles my mind then one day when I was working in the Eastern Cape actually I saw it more than once and I wasn't the only person to see it either so I wasn't going a little bit loopy wasn't big inaudible which is in the like a life for the families most of you
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50 Years Ago, This Was a...
can be done by you and I they don't have to have government they can't expect government to do it all anyway but if we do have some contribution to ethics the results from mind boggling I'm telling you truthfully I've seen this property
Video examples
Toy tiles that talk to...
view the results immediately so here I'm this is a Fibonacci sequence that I'm making with a simple equation program here we have a word game that's kind of like a mash-up between Scrabble and boggle basically in every round you get
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Herring Hazards PIPE...
in numbers that seemed to boggle the imagination so many that scientists struggled to get an accurate count of their total population they are a major source of food for a multitude of the world's marine animals that scooped the
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Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
I'm boggled at how much he and his associates needed to know in order to plot this out. But most important to make it work -- and he emphasized this -- is that it took knowing the people in the communities.
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Ivory’s Historical...
biggest slave traders in the world this man was a terrorist this man trafficked tens of thousands of human beings through this building every year he traffic ivory that boggles the
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A theory of everything PIPE...
It said, "Ears pierced while you wait." There the alternative just boggles the imagination. "Oh no. Thanks though, I'll leave them here. Thanks very much.
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Unlocking the Eyes PIPE...
what boggles my mind about the eye is everything but I'm really really excited by the advances and technology made possible by research not just into the
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Kelly Sue DeConnick
American Writer
Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.
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Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.
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Lena Waithe
American Actress
Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The show literally changed my life, and it boggles my mind that it doesn't get the kind of love it deserves.
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Geddy Lee
Canadian Musician
Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
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John Glover
American Actor
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
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Dean Stockwell
American Actor
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
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Daniel Lubetzky
Mexican Businessman
Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
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Samantha Morton
English Actress
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Cyndi Lauper
American Musician
Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.
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Kelly Sue DeConnick
American Writer
Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.
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Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.
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Lena Waithe
American Actress
Talk to any black person in my age group, and they'll say 'A Different World' is why they went to college. The show literally changed my life, and it boggles my mind that it doesn't get the kind of love it deserves.
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Geddy Lee
Canadian Musician
Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
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John Glover
American Actor
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
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Dean Stockwell
American Actor
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
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Daniel Lubetzky
Mexican Businessman
Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
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Robert South
English Clergyman
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
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Samantha Morton
English Actress
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Cyndi Lauper
American Musician
Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.
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