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fumble

Nouns

• (n) (sports) dropping the ball muff,

Verbs

• (v) feel about uncertainly or blindly
  • She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
  grope,
• (v) make one's way clumsily or blindly
  • He fumbled towards the door
  blunder,
• (v) handle clumsily
• (v) make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
  • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
  ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, spoil, muff, screw up, blow,
• (v) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
  • fumble a grounder

Synonyms

muff grope blunder ball up bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up louse up mess up mishandle muck up spoil screw up blow

See also

grope for scrabble

Words of close approximity