Fumble

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  • intransitive verb. To touch or handle nervously or idly.
  • intransitive verb. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To drop a ball that is in play.
  • intransitive verb. To mishandle a ground ball.
  • intransitive verb. To touch or handle clumsily or idly.
  • intransitive verb. To make a mess of; bungle. synonym: botch.
  • intransitive verb. To feel or make (one's way) awkwardly.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To drop (a ball) while in play.
  • intransitive verb. To mishandle (a ground ball).
  • noun. The act or an instance of fumbling.
  • noun. A ball that has been fumbled.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To feel or grope about blindly or clumsily; hence, to make awkward attempts; seek or search for something awkwardly.
  • To stutter; stammer; hesitate in speech; mumble.
  • To find by groping; secure or ascertain by feeling about blindly or clumsily.
  • Specifically In base-ball, to stop or catch, as the ball, in such a clumsy manner that an opportunity is lost to put out an opponent.
  • To manage awkwardly; crowd or tumble together; jumble.
  • noun. The act of groping; awkward attempt; aimless search.
  • noun. In base-ball, foot-ball, and other games, an act of fumbling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
  • intransitive verb. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
  • intransitive verb. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
  • intransitive verb. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To idly touch or nervously handle
  • verb. To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
  • verb. To blunder uncertainly
  • verb. To drop a ball or a baton etc.
  • noun. A ball etc. that has been dropped
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • verb. handle clumsily
  • noun. (sports) dropping the ball
  • verb. make one's way clumsily or blindly
  • verb. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
  • verb. feel about uncertainly or blindly
  • Word Usage
    "Still, that same defense provided a touchdown and came up with the nail-in-the-coffin fumble at the end."
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    fumbled  fumbling  
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    bloomer  blooper  blunder  boner  boo-boo  
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