fumble
noun
- 1
(sports) dropping the ball
verb
- 1
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
fumble a grounder
- 2
handle clumsily
- 3
feel about uncertainly or blindly
She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
- 4
make one's way clumsily or blindly
He fumbled towards the door
- 5
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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