fumble

(noun) (sports) dropping the ball. Synonyms: muff.

(verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly. Synonyms: grope. Examples: "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom."

(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly. Synonyms: blunder. Examples: "He fumbled towards the door."

(verb) handle clumsily.

(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Synonyms: botch, bodge, bumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up. Examples: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out." "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement."

(verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder. Examples: "Fumble a grounder."