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fumbling   (TTS Sound)

The verb fumble has 5 senses

• grope, fumble -- (feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom")


• fumble, blunder -- (make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door")


• fumble -- (handle clumsily)


• botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, 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 -- (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")


• fumble -- (drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder")

The adj fumbling has 1 sense

• bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent -- (showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf")