transcription, транскрипция: [ fʌmb(ə)l ]
( fumbles, fumbling, fumbled)
1.
If you fumble for something or fumble with something, you try and reach for it or hold it in a clumsy way.
She crept from the bed and fumbled for her dressing gown...
VERB : V for/with/in n
2.
When you are trying to say something, if you fumble for the right words, you speak in a clumsy and unclear way.
I fumbled for something to say...
He fumbled his lines, not knowing what he was going to say.
VERB : V for n , V n , also V