fumble
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(sports) dropping the ball
Types & categories
- blunder hypernym
Related & opposite
- fumble derivation
- muff derivation
- American football domain topic
- baseball domain topic
Sense 2 verb
feel about uncertainly or blindly
She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
Types & categories
- search hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
make one's way clumsily or blindly
He fumbled towards the door
Types & categories
- pass hypernym
Sense 4 verb
handle clumsily
Types & categories
- palm hypernym
Sense 5 verb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
Types & categories
- miscarry hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
fumble a grounder
Types & categories
- play hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fumble |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | muff |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | American football |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | baseball |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | blunder |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | scrabble |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grope |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | search |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pass |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | palm |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | blunder |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | ballup |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | fluff |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | screwup |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | spoil |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | fuckup |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | miscarry |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | fumble |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | baseball |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | play |