FUMBLED - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

(sports) dropping the ball

Part of speech: Verb

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

Example: fumble a grounder

Part of speech: Verb

handle clumsily

Part of speech: Verb

feel about uncertainly or blindly

Example: She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom

Part of speech: Verb

make one's way clumsily or blindly

Example: He fumbled towards the door

Part of speech: Verb

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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

Foul up, Bollix up, Bungle, Screw up, Bumble