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1. Feel about uncertainly or blindly
   "She fumbled for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
   - grope
    
2. Make one's way clumsily or blindly
   "He fumbled towards the door"
   - blunder
    
3. Handle clumsily
    
4. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I fumbled the dinner and we had to eat out"
   - botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, bugger, balls up
    
5. Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
   "fumble a grounder"

1. (sports) dropping the ball
   - muff

Derived forms: fumbled, fumbling, fumbles

See also: fumbler

Type of: bloomer, blooper [N. Amer], blue [Austral, NZ], blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, fail, flub [N. Amer], foul-up, go across, go through, go wrong, handle, look for, miscarry, palm, pass, play, pratfall, search, seek

Encyclopedia: Fumble