fumble

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Synonyms: rumble, mumble, tumble, humble, jumble, bumble, famble, fimble, dumble

Antonyms: rumble, mumble, tumble, humble, jumble, bumble, famble, fimble, dumble

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Verb

1. To handle nervously or awkwardly.
   • Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
   • He fumbled the key into the lock.
2. To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
   • He fumbled for his keys.
   • He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
3. To blunder uncertainly.
   • He fumbled through his prepared speech.
4. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
   • to fumble for an excuse
5. To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
6. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
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Noun

1. The dropping of a ball by accident.
2. A clumsy sexual encounter.
   • Suzy and Jimmy had a fumble behind the bike shed.
3. A blunder; a mistake.
   • another inept fumble by the government

Noun

1. A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.

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