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Synonyms 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fumbleverb

    Synonyms:
    feel about (awkwardly or childishly), make awkward attempts

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  1. List of known nicknames for "Fumble":

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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. Jim Davis/The:

    We met in the hallway as we were passing before the interview process was going to start, i said ‘Hey’ and introduced myself and everything. He looked me in the eye and said, ‘There’s one thing. It was a fumble.’ So Raider Nation, if you’re worried, he’s already come over to the dark side.

  4. 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.

  5. John Heisman:

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


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