Fumble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie.
  • verb-intransitive. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something: fumble for a key.
  • verb-intransitive. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder: fumble through a speech.
  • verb-intransitive. Football To drop a ball that is in play.
  • verb-intransitive. Baseball To mishandle a ground ball.
  • v. To touch or handle clumsily or idly: "fumbled the receiver into its cradle” ( Howard Kaplan).
  • v. To make a mess of; bungle. See Synonyms at botch.
  • v. To feel or make (one's way) awkwardly.
  • v. Football To drop (a ball) while in play.
  • v. Baseball To mishandle (a ground ball).
  • n. The act or an instance of fumbling.
  • n. Sports A ball that has been fumbled.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To idly touch or nervously handle
  • v. To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
  • v. To blunder uncertainly
  • v. To drop a ball or a baton etc.
  • n. A ball etc. that has been dropped
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
  • verb-intransitive. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
  • verb-intransitive. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
  • v. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To feel or grope about blindly or clumsily; hence, to make awkward attempts; seek or search for something awkwardly.
  • To stutter; stammer; hesitate in speech; mumble.
  • To find by groping; secure or ascertain by feeling about blindly or clumsily.
  • Specifically In base-ball, to stop or catch, as the ball, in such a clumsy manner that an opportunity is lost to put out an opponent.
  • To manage awkwardly; crowd or tumble together; jumble.
  • n. The act of groping; awkward attempt; aimless search.
  • n. In base-ball, foot-ball, and other games, an act of fumbling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • v. handle clumsily
  • n. (sports) dropping the ball
  • v. make one's way clumsily or blindly
  • v. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
  • v. feel about uncertainly or blindly
  • Verb Form
    fumbled    fumbles    fumbling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    miscarry    fail    go wrong    palm    handle    boo-boo    fuckup    bloomer    foul-up    pratfall   
    Form
    fumbled    fumbling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feel    mismanage   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Trumbull    bumble    crumble    grumble    humble    jumble    mumble    rumble    stumble    tumble   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gorgorotha    jedynie    niejakiego    bungler