Fumble vs Grab - What's the difference?
fumble | grab |
(intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle
* {{quote-news
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(intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
* Fielding
To blunder uncertainly.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
* Chesterfield
* Wordsworth
(transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
* Shakespeare
To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
* , chapter=7
, title= To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
To restrain someone; to arrest.
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
* 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away , Bantam, p117
* 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., p105
* 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, p216
(informal) To consume something quickly.
To take the opportunity of.
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, title= a sudden snatch (for something)
* 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, Vol. 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, p47
* 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, p66
a mechanical device that grabs or clutches
# a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven
(media) a soundbite
As nouns the difference between fumble and grab
is that fumble is (sports) a ball etc that has been dropped while grab is grave.As a verb fumble
is (intransitive) to idly touch or nervously handle.fumble
English
Verb
(fumbl)- Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
- He fumbled the key into the lock.
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- He fumbled for his keys.
- He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
- Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
- He fumbled through his prepared speech.
- to fumble for an excuse
- My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles .
- Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
- I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
grab
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(grabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.
- Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."
- He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."
Blackpool 1-2 West Ham, passage=Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
- He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.