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