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Adjective fumbling has 1 sense
- bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent - showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
Verb fumble has 5 senses
- 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:
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Somebody ----s PP
- 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
- fumble - handle clumsily
--3 is one way to handle, palm
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- 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
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
- fumble - drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"
--5 is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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