Usually means: Lost control of something clumsily.
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  1. fumbled: Merriam-Webster
  2. fumbled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fumbled: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fumbled, fumbled: Wordnik
  5. fumbled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fumbled: Wiktionary
  7. Fumbled, fumbled: Dictionary.com
  8. fumbled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fumbled: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Fumbled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Fumbled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. fumbled: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fumbled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fumbled: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fumble)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
verb:  (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
verb:  To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
verb:  To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
verb:  (slang, obsolete) Of a man, to sexually underperform.
noun:  (sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
noun:  (British) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
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