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Meaning of fumble

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fumble
      n 1: (sports) dropping the ball [syn: {fumble}, {muff}]
      v 1: feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her
           glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: {grope},
           {fumble}]
      2: make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the
         door" [syn: {fumble}, {blunder}]
      3: handle clumsily
      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}, {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 up}]
      5: drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a
         grounder"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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