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List of meaning for fumble

to mishandle or let something slip accidentally from the hands

fumble, muff(verb)

(sports) dropping the ball

grope, fumble(verb)

feel about uncertainly or blindly

"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

fumble, blunder(verb)

make one's way clumsily or blindly

"He fumbled towards the door"

fumble(verb)

handle clumsily

botch, bodge, 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(verb)

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"

fumble(verb)

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

"fumble a grounder"

an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy

played the entire piano piece without a single fumble

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

her assistant fumbled the party plans by getting the time wrong on the invitations

to search for something blindly or uncertainly

the librarian fumbled for the light switch as she entered the dark room

to make a mistake

just when it looked like he was going to get away with the ruse, he fumbled

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