 fumble |
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| 1. | [ verb ] feel about uncertainly or blindly | |
| Synonyms: | grope | |
| Examples: | "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" |
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| Related terms: | search grope_for grope | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (baseball,sport,american football) dropping the ball (in baseball or football) | |
| Synonyms: | muff | |
| Related terms: | blunder baseball American_football | |
| 3. | [ verb ] handle clumsily | |
| Related terms: | handle handle | |
| 4. | [ verb ] make one's way clumsily or blindly | |
| Synonyms: | blunder | |
| Examples: | "He fumbled towards the door" |
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| Related terms: | pass | |
| 5. | [ verb ] make a mess of, destroy or ruin | |
| Synonyms: | louse_up spoil fuck_up flub muck_up foul_up mess_up blunder bollocks_up mishandle blow bumble bungle botch_up fluff bobble bollix screw_up bollix_up bollocks ball_up muff botch | |
| Examples: | "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out" "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
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| Related terms: | fail blurt_out blunder spoil bungler fluff ballup screwup | |
| 6. | [ verb ] (games) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder in baseball | |
| Examples: | : "fumble a grounder" |
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| Related terms: | play baseball | |
| Similar spelling: |
fumbler fumbling |
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