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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fumble
fumble
n : (sports) dropping the ball [syn:
muff]
fumble
v 1: feel about uncertainly or blindly;
“She groped for her
glasses in the darkness of the bedroom” [syn:
grope]
2: make one's way clumsily or blindly;
“He fumbled towards the
door” [syn:
blunder]
3: handle clumsily
4: 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” [syn:
botch,
bumble,
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]
5: drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder;
“fumble a
grounder”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fumble
Fumble
\Fum"ble\, v. t.
To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
--Shak.
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Fumble
\Fum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Fumbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fumbling.] [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.]
1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or
find something.
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Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
--Fielding.
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2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to
fumble for an excuse. --Dryden.
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My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.
--Chesterfield.
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Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
--Wordsworth.
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3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
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I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with
flowers. --Shak.
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