Fumble meaning

(sports) dropping the ball

feel about uncertainly or blindly

“She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom”

make one's way clumsily or blindly

“He fumbled towards the door”

handle clumsily

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”

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder

“fumble a grounder”