fumble
(sports) dropping the ball (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
muff
• Derivationally related forms:
muff (for: muff)
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game, American football, American football game
• Hypernyms:
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall,
foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
1. feel about uncertainly or blindly (Freq. 4)
- She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
• Syn:
grope
• See Also:
grope for (for: grope)
• Derivationally related forms:
grope (for: grope)
• Hypernyms:
search, seek, look for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. make one's way clumsily or blindly (Freq. 1)
- He fumbled towards the door
• Syn:
blunder
• Hypernyms:
pass, go through, go across
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. handle clumsily (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
handle, palm
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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, 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
• Derivationally related forms:
fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoil (for: spoil), spoilage (for: spoil), spoiling (for: spoil), ballup (for: ball up), screwup (for: screw up), flub (for: flub), fumbler, bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch)
• Hypernyms:
fail, go wrong, miscarry
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
5. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
- fumble a grounder
• Topics:
baseball, baseball game
• Hypernyms:
play
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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