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Synonyms for fumble

grope

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bungle

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for fumble

to reach about or search blindly or uncertainly

to proceed or perform in an unsteady, faltering manner

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Synonyms for fumble

feel about uncertainly or blindly

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make one's way clumsily or blindly

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handle clumsily

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drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

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Recovering a bad choice fumble involves soul searching to discover what pressures influenced the bad choices, such as peer pressure.
-- Jason McCourty, Titans, caused a fumble, recovered it and raced 62 yards for a touchdown in Tennessee's 45-21 loss to Houston.
Fumble: You're coming up on nine months with your girlfriend and the honeymoon period is wearing off.
The accompanying diagrams present three simple drills with which to train your defensive personnel to respond positively to fumble and recovery situations.
Making matters worse, activists said, is the fumble of journalists covering the crimes.
Smith ran for 144 yards and a touchdown while defensive end Jason Taylor also returned a fumble for a score.
Northwestern also lost a quarterback with TJ Green leaving with a leg injury in the third quarter after being sacked and losing a fumble on a play in the red zone.
FOXBORO -- Defensive end Rob Ninkovich's fumble recovery and return for a touchdown capped a burst of 21 Patriots points in 57 seconds late in the first half of Sunday's 51-23 blowout win over the Bears at Gillette Stadium.
Watt had 2 sacks and a fumble return for TD in the Texans' failed comeback bid.
A BATON fumble by Craig Pickering got our men's 4x100 team disqualified after they finished second in their semi-final yesterday.
Gateshead kept up the pressure and the result was Andy Sinclair's fumble recovery for the Senators which led rapidly to Duncan French's 10-yard touchdown run.
As our offense begins to drive the ball, they fumble and the opponents recover on our 21-yard line.
Xerox may have fumbled the future, but its fumble also provided the opportunity for fast-moving new competitors to race ahead and make the personal computer as ubiquitous in the workplace as--well, a Xerox machine.