Dictionary Entry
fumble
fumble is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
- 2intransitive verb
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.
- 3intransitive verb
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
- 4transitive verb
To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
- 5noun
(sports) dropping the ball
Synonyms
- 6verb
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
"fumble a grounder"
- 7verb
handle clumsily
- 8verb
feel about uncertainly or blindly
"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
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- 9verb
make one's way clumsily or blindly
"He fumbled towards the door"
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- 10verb
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"
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