fumble

Noun

• (sports) dropping the ball

Verb

• drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
  • fumble a grounder
    

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
    
  • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
    

• handle clumsily

• make one's way clumsily or blindly
  • He fumbled towards the door
    

• feel about uncertainly or blindly
  • She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  muff , botch , bodge , bumble , botch up , blow , flub , screw up , ball up , spoil , muck up , bungle , fluff , bollix , bollix up , bollocks , bollocks up , blunder , grope