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# fumble

«fumble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to handle something clumsily with the hands, often in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (fumble, fumbles, fumbled, fumbling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To fumble is to handle something clumsily with the hands, often in the dark or in a hurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/#m1)

2) To fumble can mean to search about clumsily for something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/#m2)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/#x1)
- She fumbled in her bag for the key. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/#x2)
- He fumbled about in the dark until he found the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fumble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fumble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.