| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fumble.[Websters]
2. To have investigated, rummaged, looked, visited or ventilated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be infected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have scanned, excavated, scoured or traced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be polluted, tarnished or bastardized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be botched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have browsed, snooped, sniffed, pried or snuffled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have scrounged or asked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be bored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have probed or tried.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fumble.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fumble) | 1. Feel about uncertainly or blindly.[Wordnet]. 2. Make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door".[Wordnet]. 3. Handle clumsily.[Wordnet]. 4. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.[Wordnet]. 5. Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder".[Wordnet]. 6. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.[Websters]. 7. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.[Websters]. 8. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.[Websters]. 9. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: fumbling, fumbled, fumbles, fumbler, fumblers, fumblingly and fumbledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being infected or bastardized.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being polluted or debauched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being botched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being bored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being jumbled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FUMBLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fumble
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To feel or grope about; to attempt awkwardly.. | 2: [Verb] To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.. | 3: [Verb] To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly He fumbled through his prepared speech. (references) | 3: [Verb] (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something He fumbled for his keys He fumbled his way to the light-switch. (references) | 4: [Verb] (transitive, intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie He fumbled the key into the lock. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. (references) |
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Common Expressions: fumble
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fumble (album) | Banging the Drum is an album by Scream recorded December 1989 at Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, Virginia and released in July 1993 through Dischord Records. (references) | ||
| The Fumble | The Fumble refers to a specific incident in the January 18, 1988 AFC Championship Game between the Cleveland Browns and the Denver Broncos. Trailing 31-38 with 1:12 remaining in the game, the Browns running back Earnest Byner appeared to be on his way to score the game tying touchdown. But he fumbled the ball at the 3-yard line. The Broncos recovered the ball, gave the Browns an intentional safety, and went on to win 38-33. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: fumble | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fumble | 32 | Fumble | 32 | |
| The Fumble | 19 | Fumble (album) | 6 | |
| Fumble (album) | 6 | Fumble Rumble | 3 | |
| Fumble Rumble | 3 | The Fumble | 19 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
