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fumble

 
Noun fumble has 1 sense
  1. fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball
    --1 is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
    Derived form: verb fumble5
Verb fumble has 5 senses
  1. grope, fumble - feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
    --1 is one way to search, seek, look for
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. fumble, blunder - make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"
    --2 is one way to pass, go through, go across
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  3. fumble - handle clumsily
    --3 is one way to
    handle, palm
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - 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"
    --4 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
    Derived form: noun fumbler1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  5. fumble - drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"
    --5 is one way to
    play
    Derived form: noun fumble1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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