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fumble
(sports) dropping the ball (Freq. 1) • Syn: muff • Derivationally related forms: muff (for: muff) • Topics: baseball, baseball game, American football, American football game • Hypernyms: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
1. feel about uncertainly or blindly (Freq. 4) - She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom • Syn: grope • See Also: grope for (for: grope) • Derivationally related forms: grope (for: grope) • Hypernyms: search, seek, look for • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP 2. make one's way clumsily or blindly (Freq. 1) - He fumbled towards the door • Syn: blunder • Hypernyms: pass, go through, go across • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - Somebody ----s 3. handle clumsily (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: handle, palm • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something 4. 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 • Syn: 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 • Derivationally related forms: fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoil (for: spoil), spoilage (for: spoil), spoiling (for: spoil), ballup (for: ball up), screwup (for: screw up), flub (for: flub), fumbler, bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch) • Hypernyms: fail, go wrong, miscarry • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s something 5. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder - fumble a grounder • Topics: baseball, baseball game • Hypernyms: play • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something
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