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fumble

/ fumble /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
(sports) dropping the ball
Type of:
blunder blooper bloomer
Derived:
muff
Domain:
baseball baseball game ball
verb Sense 2
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
"fumble a grounder"
Type of:
play
Derived:
muff
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Domain:
baseball baseball game ball
verb Sense 3
handle clumsily
Type of:
handle palm
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 4
make one''s way clumsily or blindly
"He fumbled towards the door"
Type of:
pass go through go across
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
verb Sense 5
feel about uncertainly or blindly
"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
Type of:
search seek look for
Derived:
grope
See also:
grope for scrabble
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb Sense 6
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"
Type of:
fail go wrong miscarry
Derived:
blunder blooper bloomer bungle foul-up
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Semantic Complexity
55%
Sense Count
6
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
25
Times Searched
20
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blunder blooper bloomer play handle palm pass go through go across search seek look for