What is "fumble" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fumble mean in English? Meaning of fumble definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fumble" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fumble": (sports) dropping the ball

Noun

  • Meaning: (sports) dropping the ball
  • Synonyms: fumble muff
  • Hypernyms: bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo botch bungle flub foul-up fuckup pratfall
  • Meaning of "fumble": feel about uncertainly or blindly

    Verb

  • Meaning: feel about uncertainly or blindly
  • Example: She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
  • Synonyms: fumble grope
  • Hypernyms: look for search seek
  • Also see: grope for scrabble
  • Meaning of "fumble": make one's way clumsily or blindly

    Verb

  • Meaning: make one's way clumsily or blindly
  • Example: He fumbled towards the door
  • Synonyms: blunder fumble
  • Hypernyms: go across go through pass
  • Meaning of "fumble": handle clumsily

    Verb

  • Meaning: handle clumsily
  • Synonyms: fumble
  • Hypernyms: handle palm
  • Meaning of "fumble": make a mess of, destroy or ruin

    Verb

  • Meaning: make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • Example: I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
  • Synonyms: ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble louse up mess up mishandle muck up muff screw up spoil
  • Hypernyms: fail go wrong miscarry
  • Meaning of "fumble": drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

    Verb

  • Meaning: drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
  • Example: fumble a grounder
  • Synonyms: fumble
  • Hypernyms: play
  • Synonyms:

    screw up, flub, stumble, mishandle, botch, goof, fluff, err, flounder, mismanage, feel, grapple, spoil, grope, bungle, louse up, bollix, scrabble, lose the handle, misfield,

    Antonyms:

    succeed, do well,

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