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fumblingverbpresent participle of fumble to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful wayher assistant fumbled the party plans by getting the time wrong on the invitations blowing, bobbling, boggling, bollixing (up), booting, botching, buggering (up), bumbling, bungling, butchering, dubbing, flubbing, fluffing, foozling, fouling up, goofing (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mucking up, muffing, murdering, screwing up blundering, gumming (up), muddling, pifflingblemishing, blighting, damaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, mutilating, ruining, spoiling, vitiatingdestroying, wreckingmishandling, mismanaging ameliorating, bettering, enhancing, helping, improving, meliorating, rectifying, refining, reforming, remedyingdoctoring, fixing, patching, reconditioning, renovating, repairing, revamping to search for something blindly or uncertainlythe librarian fumbled for the light switch as she entered the dark room feeling, fishing, groping, scrabbling grabblingcasting about, hunting, looking, reaching, seeking (out)capturing, clutching, corralling, getting, grabbing, nabbing, nailing, seizing, snatchingcombing, digging (through), dredging, raking, ransacking, rifling, rummaging, scouring to make a mistakejust when it looked like he was going to get away with the ruse, he fumbled blundering, boobing(British), erring, flubbing, fluffing, fouling up, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), screwing up, slipping up, stumbling, tripping noddingbobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, foozling, mangling, mishandling, muffing, murderingmiscalculating, misconceiving, miscounting, miscuing, misdeeming, misgauging(also misgaging), misjudging, mistakingmisconstruing, misinterpreting, misunderstanding dropping the ball, laying an egg |