FUMBLE


Meaning of FUMBLE in English

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

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