· 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, fumble, 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

· walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

Synonym(s): stumble, falter

Hypernym(s): walk

· speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"

Synonym(s): stutter, stammer, falter

Hypernym(s): talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise

· lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

Synonym(s): bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed