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Definition of Fumble
1. Verb. Feel about uncertainly or blindly. "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
2. Noun. (sports) dropping the ball.
Generic synonyms: Bloomer, Blooper, Blunder, Boner, Boo-boo, Botch, Bungle, Flub, Foul-up, Fuckup, Pratfall
Category relationships: American Football, American Football Game, Baseball, Baseball Game
Derivative terms: Muff
3. Verb. Make one's way clumsily or blindly. "He fumbled towards the door"
4. Verb. Handle clumsily.
5. Verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Ballup, Botch, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungle, Bungler, Flub, Fluff, Foul-up, Fuckup, Fumbler, Mess-up, Screwup, Spoil, Spoilage, Spoiling
6. Verb. Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder. "Fumble a grounder"
Definition of Fumble
1. v. i. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
2. v. t. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
Definition of Fumble
1. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle ¹
2. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly ¹
4. Verb. (transitive intransitive sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. ¹
5. Noun. (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fumble
1. to handle clumsily [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]
Medical Definition of Fumble
1. 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. "Adams now began to fumble in his pockets." (Fielding) 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. "My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles." (Chesterfield) "Alas! how he fumbles about the domains." (Wordsworth) 3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. "I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers." (Shak) Origin: Akin to D. Fommelen to crumple, fumble, Sw. Fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Dan. Famle to grope, fumble, Icel. Falme, AS. Folm palm of the hand. See Feel, and cf. Fanble, Palm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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