fumble
/ˈfʌmbəl/noun, verb2 syllables
Fumble means: make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
Synonyms for fumble27
noun, as in (sports) dropping the ball
muff
verb, as in make a mess of, destroy or ruin
verb, as in feel about uncertainly or blindly
grope
verb, as in make one's way clumsily or blindly
blunder
What does fumble mean?6
verb
1
make a mess of, destroy or ruin“I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”
2
feel about uncertainly or blindly“She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom”
3
make one's way clumsily or blindly“He fumbled towards the door”
4
handle clumsily
5
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder“fumble a grounder”
noun
1
(sports) dropping the ball
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with fumble?6
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Fumble in a sentence
- She fumbled with the glasses as she brought them in.CK
- He fumbled with the keys before finding the right one.darinmex
- He fumbled in his room in the search for the lost key.mervert1
- Ziri fumbled through his bag to find his inhaler.Amastan
- Ziri fumbled to get his gun out of its holster.Amastan
- Elias reached into his bag and fumbled around.Amastan
- I fumbled for my keys as I approached the entrance.hecko
- No one in human history has fumbled the bag so hard as Asa.58mph
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Forms of fumble
as a noun
- plural
- fumbles
as a verb
- past tense
- fumbled
- present participle
- fumbling
- third-person singular
- fumbles
- past participle
- fumbled