Antonyms for fumble
ˈfʌm bəlfum·ble

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1. fumble, muffverb

   (sports) dropping the ball

   Synonyms:
   muff

2. grope, fumbleverb

   feel about uncertainly or blindly

   "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

   Synonyms:
   spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, grope, blunder, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff

3. fumble, blunderverb

   make one's way clumsily or blindly

   "He fumbled towards the door"

   Synonyms:
   blurt out, botch, bungle, grope, sin, muck up, blunder out, mishandle, bumble, botch up, goof, blow, blunder, flub, ball up, bollocks up, bollocks, mess up, louse up, screw up, spoil, muff, boob, blurt, foul up, drop the ball, fluff, ejaculate, bobble, bollix up, bollix, bodge

4. fumbleverb

   handle clumsily

   Synonyms:
   spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, grope, blunder, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff

5. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, 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 upverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, stammer, mud, plunder, impair, drift, pamper, hot up, flub, suck, featherbed, mar, gasconade, squander, ruffle up, boast, heat up, vaunt, itch, screw up, ball up, mire, frustrate, corrupt, bluster, gas, deflower, spoil, muck up, rape, tease, grope, violate, bollocks, mollycoddle, bungle, bollocks up, muck, shove along, shove off, foil, stutter, blow, bollix, rumple, coddle, cosset, shoot a line, scotch, go bad, ruffle, baby, cross, louse up, fellate, float, botch up, bodge, mess up, brag, bobble, baffle, muff, be adrift, fluff, mess, mishandle, tout, foul up, swash, blunder, indulge, despoil, waste, go down on, stumble, blow out, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, bumble, falter, cocker, burn out, misconduct, mismanage

6. fumbleverb

   drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

   "fumble a grounder"

   Synonyms:
   spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, grope, blunder, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff

How to use fumble in a sentence?

1. Tanner Mordecai:

   We kind of shot ourselves in the foot, specifically me, that fumble and the interception could have easily been avoided.

2. Martin Charlton:

   There is no textbook you can go buy. There is no self-help guide. You just sort of fumble your way through it, you're figuring it out every day.

3. James Robinson:

   When [a fumble] happens and you’re out for that long, you’ve gotta feel that way, i was just waiting my turn to get back in the game and it didn’t really come until the third quarter.

4. John Heisman:

   Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

5. Filmmaker Evan Briggs:

   It's something that you or I could do in 30 seconds flat, and watching them both try to fumble through with limited dexterity was kind of painful but sweet because they really needed each other to make it happen, you could tell the kids felt, we're doing this together, and we're helping each other, and it's not yet another situation where I'm not big enough.

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