| VERB | contact | fumble, grope | feel about uncertainly or blindly |
|---|---|---|---|
| motion | fumble, blunder | make one's way clumsily or blindly | |
| contact | fumble | handle clumsily | |
| social | fumble, botch, bodge, 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 | make a mess of, destroy or ruin | |
| competition | fumble | drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | |
| NOUN | act | fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball |
| Sounds | fah'mbahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | (sports) dropping the ball. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | muff | |
| Category | American football, American football game | A game / game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long |
| baseball, baseball game, ball | A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players | |
| Broader | blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo | An embarrassing mistake |
| Verbs | fumble | drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder |
| Meaning | Feel about uncertainly or blindly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | grope | |
| Broader | search, seek, look for | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of |
| Spanish | buscar a tientas, palpar, tantear | |
| Meaning | make one's way clumsily or blindly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Example | "He fumbled towards the door" | |
| Synonym | blunder | |
| Broader | pass | go across or through |
| Meaning | Handle clumsily. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | handle, palm | touch, lift, or hold with the hands |
| Spanish | manosear | |
| Meaning | make a mess of, destroy or ruin. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | botch, bodge, 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 | |
| Broader | fail, go wrong, miscarry | Be unsuccessful |
| Spanish | apelotonar, arruinar, cagarla, chapucear, estropear, joderla, pifiar | |
| Catalan | arruïnar, cagar-la, esguerrar, espatllar, espifiar, fer barroerament, fotre | |
| Nouns | fumbler | someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence |
| Meaning | Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "fumble a grounder" | |
| Category | baseball, baseball game, ball | A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players |
| Broader | play | participate in games / games or sport |
| Spanish | dejar caer, perder el balon | |
| Nouns | fumble | (sports) dropping the ball |
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