fumble

/fˈʌmbəl/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. feel about uncertainly or blindly
   “She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom”
2. make one's way clumsily or blindly
   “He fumbled towards the door”
3. handle clumsily
4. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”
5. drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
   “fumble a grounder”

noun

1. (sports) dropping the ball

Synonyms for fumble

• grope
• blunder
• botch
• bodge
• bumble
• botch up
• muff
• blow
• flub
• screw up
• ball up
• spoil
• muck up
• bungle
• fluff
• bollix
• bollix up

Words that rhyme with fumble

• tumble
• grumble
• humble
• jumble
• stumble
• rumble
• bumble
• crumble
• mumble
• umbel
• gumbel
• kumble
• trumble
• umble