Word

fumble, v.
(fumbled, fumbles, fumbling)
freq. cnt. 6

feel about uncertainly or blindly
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4

fumble grope

sample sentences

"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

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semantic pointers

hypernym

look for, seek, search

handle clumsily
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fumble

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semantic pointers

hypernym

make one's way clumsily or blindly
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blunder fumble

sample sentences

"He fumbled towards the door"

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hypernym

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
<verb.competition>

fumble

sample sentences

"fumble a grounder"

verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

baseball, baseball game, ball

hypernym

make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble louse up mess up mishandle muck up muff screw up spoil

sample sentences

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spoilage spoiling spoil

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

fail, go wrong, miscarry