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fumble

noun

1 fumble

sports Dropping the ball.

synonym: muff.

verb

1 fumble

Feel about uncertainly or blindly.

synonym: grope.

Roget 61: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, ... show more

Roget 379: touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; ... show more

Roget 463: experiment; essay etc. (endeavor) 675; try, try out, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; ... show more

Dutch: betasten

2 fumble

Make one's way clumsily or blindly:
— He fumbled towards the door.

synonym: blunder.

3 fumble

Handle clumsily.

Dutch: schutteren

4 fumble

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up ... show more.

Roget 699: be unskillful etc. adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble ... show more

Dutch: bederven, hannesen, haspelen, infesteren, klunzen, krukken, mispeuteren, naar de knoppen helpen, stuntelen, verbroddelen ... show more

5 fumble

Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder.


Moby thesaurus: bad job, ball up, be all thumbs, beat about, bevue, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bollix up, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bumble ... show more.

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fumbled

Moby thesaurus: botched, bungled, butchered, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, negligent, spoiled.

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