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Fumbling

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Adjective

1. bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent

showing lack of skill or aptitude

Example Sentences:
'a bungling workman'
'did a clumsy job'
'his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fumbling

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verb
1. (intr; often foll by for or with)
to grope about clumsily or blindly, esp in searching
he was fumbling in the dark for the money he had dropped
2. (intr; foll by at or with)
to finger or play with, esp in an absent-minded way
3. 
to say or do hesitantly or awkwardly
he fumbled the introduction badly
4. 
to fail to catch or grasp (a ball, etc) cleanly
noun
5. 
the act of fumbling

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Fumbling

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verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈfumbled or ˈfumbling
1. 
to search (for a thing) by feeling about awkwardly with the hands; grope clumsily
2. 
to handle (a thing) clumsily or unskillfully; bungle
3. 
to lose one's grasp on (a football, etc.) while trying to catch or hold it
4. 
to make (one's way) clumsily or by groping
noun
5. 
the act or fact of fumbling
6. 
a football, etc. that has been fumbled

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fumbling

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v. fum·bled, fum·bling, fum·bles
v.intr.
1. To touch or handle nervously or idly: fumble with a necktie.
2. To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something: fumble for a key.
3. To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder: fumble through a speech.
4.
a. Football To drop a ball that is in play.
b. Baseball To mishandle a ground ball.
v.tr.
1. To touch or handle clumsily or idly: "fumbled the skeleton key into the lock and turned it" (Bentley Dadmun).
2. To make a mess of; bungle. See Synonyms at botch.
3. To feel or make (one's way) awkwardly.
4.
a. Football To drop (a ball) while in play.
b. Baseball To mishandle (a ground ball).
n.
1. The act or an instance of fumbling.
2. Sports A ball that has been fumbled.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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