0 to do something awkwardly, especially when using your hands:
2 to have difficulty saying or thinking of suitable words:
I was fumbling for the right word.
They could only be expected to fumble and blunder as they struggled to master the art of command at the senior level.
Our bodies fumble or dance their way through life as powerhouses of making and meaning.
In that case, when nature has apparently fumbled, human hands can seek to rescue.
They first of ail fumbled about the date.
The attempts by the local education authority to remove surplus places have been met by prevarication, fumbling inefficiency, and totally unwarranted and costly delay.
I got the impression that she fumbled over that.
We all subscribe to those objectives in our own pragmatic, rather tentative and perhaps hesitant and fumbling rule-of-thumb manner.
I once spent five minutes fumbling about in the dark trying to release myself from the seat belt of my daughter's car.
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笨手笨腳地做, (尤指)摸索,亂摸, 運動…
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笨手笨脚地做, (尤指)摸索,乱摸, 运动…
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ir a tientas, hurgar, buscar/revolver a tientas/torpemente…
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tatear, apalpar…
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手探りで探す…
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el yordamıyla aramak, yoklamak…
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tâtonner, cafouiller…
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furgar, anar a les palpentes…
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