· (sports) dropping the ball
Synonym(s): muff
Hypernym(s): blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
· feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
Synonym(s): grope
Hypernym(s): search, seek, look_for
· make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"
Synonym(s): blunder
Hypernym(s): pass
· handle clumsily
· 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"
Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, 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
Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry
· drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"
Hypernym(s): play