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English noun: fumble | |||
| 1. | fumble (act) (sports) dropping the ball | ||
| Synonyms | muff | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall | ||
| Domain category | American football, American football game, baseball, baseball game | ||
English verb: fumble | |||
| 1. | fumble (contact) feel about uncertainly or blindly | ||
| Samples | She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom. | ||
| Synonyms | grope | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | look for, search, seek | ||
| 2. | fumble (motion) make one's way clumsily or blindly | ||
| Samples | He fumbled towards the door. | ||
| Synonyms | blunder | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | go across, go through, pass | ||
| 3. | fumble (contact) handle clumsily | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | handle, palm | ||
| 4. | fumble (social) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | ||
| Samples | I botched the dinner and we had to eat out. The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement. | ||
| Synonyms | ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fail, go wrong, miscarry | ||
| 5. | fumble (competition) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | ||
| Samples | Fumble a grounder. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | play | ||
| Domain category | baseball, baseball game | ||
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