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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

botch, bodge, bumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix
and 9 more, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

verb, as in feel about uncertainly or blindly

grope

verb, as in make one's way clumsily or blindly

blunder

also used for fumble

grubble, poke

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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