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Textual thesaurus for "fumble"

(noun) muff

(sports) dropping the ball


(verb) grope

feel about uncertainly or blindly

She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom


(verb) blunder

make one's way clumsily or blindly

He fumbled towards the door


(verb) flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, ball up, spoil, screw up, mishandle, muck up, muff, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle

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