Synonyms of the word

fumble

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something.
• v. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
• v. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
• v. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
• n. (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped.

bloomer

• n. An ironworker.
• n. A circular loaf of white bread.
• n. A blooming flower.
• n. One who blooms, matures, or develops.
• n. (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the…
• n. (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

blooper

• n. (informal) An error.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
• n. (informal) A film or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing mistake and/or accident during the…
• n. (nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.

blow

• adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
• v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
• v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
• v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
• v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
• v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
• v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
• v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
• v. (intransitive) To explode.
• v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
• v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
• v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
• v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
• v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
• v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
• v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
• n. A strong wind.
• n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
• n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
• n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
• n. The act of striking or hitting.
• n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
• n. A damaging occurrence.
• v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
• n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
• n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
• n. A bloom, state of flowering.

blunder

• n. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
• v. (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
• v. (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

bobble

• n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
• n. (Britain) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie.
• n. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
• n. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
• n. A wobbling motion.
• v. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
• v. (US) To make a mistake in.
• v. (intransitive) To roll slowly.

bodge

• v. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• v. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
• n. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
• n. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
• n. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
• adj. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

bollix

• v. (transitive) To confuse.
• v. (transitive) To botch or bungle.
• n. confusion.
• n. mess.

bollocks

• n. (Britain, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular).
• n. (Britain, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
• n. (Ireland, vulgar) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) A contraction of the dog's bollocks.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) To break.
• v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
• interj. (Britain, taboo, slang) Expressing anger, frustration, etc.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bollock.

boner

• n. (literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
• n. (dated, baseball, slang) A blunder; a silly mistake.
• n. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

boo-boo

• n. (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
• n. (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.
• v. (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

botch

• v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
• v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
• v. To repair or mend clumsily.
• n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
• n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
• n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
• n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
• n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
• n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
• n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

bumble

• n. A confusion, jumble.
• v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
• n. A bumble-bee.
• n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
• v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

bungle

• n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
• v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

flub

• n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
• v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

fluff

• n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
• n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
• n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
• n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
• n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
• v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
• v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
• v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
• v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

foul-up

• n. A disastrous mistake.

fuckup

• n. (vulgar) A serious mistake.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) One who continually makes mistakes.
• n. (vulgar, pejorative) An ineffective person.

grope

• v. (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
• v. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly,…
• v. To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
• v. To intentionally and inappropriately touch another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear…
• v. (obsolete) To examine; to test; to sound.
• n. (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
• n. (obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

miscarry

• v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
• v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
• v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
• v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
• v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

mishandle

• v. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
• v. To handle incorrectly; to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

muff

• n. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
• n. (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
• n. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
• n. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
• n. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
• n. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
• n. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
• n. A bird, the whitethroat.
• v. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
• v. To mishandle; to bungle.
• n. (slang) A muffin.

palm

• n. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
• n. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
• n. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the…
• n. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
• n. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of…
• n. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle…
• n. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm…
• n. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
• v. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
• v. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
• v. To move something with the palm of the hand.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

pratfall

• n. A fall onto the buttocks.
• n. A humiliating mistake.
• n. A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
• v. To fall on to the buttocks.

search

• n. An attempt to find something.
• n. The act of searching in general.
• v. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
• v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
• v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

seek

• v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
• v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
• v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
• v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…