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    fumble
    /ˈfʌmbl/

    verb

    • 1. do or handle something clumsily: "she fumbled with the lock" Similar gropefeel aboutsearch blindlyscrabble around

    noun

    • 1. an act of doing or handling something clumsily: "just one fumble during a tyre change could separate the winners from the losers"

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  2. FUMBLE definition: 1. to do something awkwardly, especially when using your hands: 2. in sport, to fail to hold on to…. Learn more.

  3. The meaning of FUMBLE is to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly. How to use fumble in a sentence.

  4. FUMBLE meaning: 1. to do something awkwardly, especially when using your hands: 2. in sport, to fail to hold on to…. Learn more.

  5. If you fumble for something or fumble with something, you try and reach for it or hold it in a clumsy way. She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown. American English : fumble / ˈfʌmbəl /

  6. to make, handle, etc., clumsily or inefficiently: to fumble an attempt; He fumbled his way through the crowded room. Synonyms: muff, spoil, mishandle, botch, bungle. Sports. to fail to hold or maintain hold on (a ball) after having touched it or carried it.

  7. Fumbling is an uncoordinated movement that can involve your entire body, not just your hands. Witness the poor parent of a newborn trying to fumble with a diaper on at three in the morning. Fumble has a more metaphorical meaning as well, meaning to mess up or mishandle. Politicians are often accused of fumbling the major issues.

  8. Define fumble. fumble synonyms, fumble pronunciation, fumble translation, English dictionary definition of fumble. v. fum·bled , fum·bling , fum·bles v. intr. 1. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie. 2. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish...

  9. [intransitive, transitive] to have difficulty speaking clearly or finding the right words to say. fumble (for something) During the interview, she fumbled helplessly for words. fumble something to fumble an announcement.

  10. To touch or handle nervously or idly. Fumble with a necktie. American Heritage. Similar definitions. To search ( for a thing) by feeling about awkwardly with the hands; grope clumsily. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder. Fumble through a speech. American Heritage. Similar definitions.

  11. to use your hands with difficulty to try to get hold of something or find something: She fumbled in her bag for her glasses. (Definition of fumble from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of fumble. in Chinese (Traditional) 笨手笨腳地做, (尤指)摸索,亂摸, 運動… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 笨手笨脚地做, (尤指)摸索,乱摸, 运动…