· 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

Hypernym(s): handle, palm

· 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

· showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

Synonym(s): bungling, clumsy, incompetent