fumble
verb (fumble, fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)
Everyday
- To fumble is to handle something clumsily with the hands, often in the dark or in a hurry. tree →
- To fumble can mean to search about clumsily for something. tree →
In the lessons
in stories, a character using clumsy hands to put on shoes, undo a button or find a door
Examples
- Tom fumbled with the button. tree →
- She fumbled in her bag for the key. tree →
- He fumbled about in the dark until he found the door. tree →
Note
nothing for maths
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «fumble» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «fumble» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fumble/