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Fumbling vs Tumbling - What's the difference?

fumbling | tumbling |

As verbs the difference between fumbling and tumbling

is that fumbling is present participle of lang=en while tumbling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between fumbling and tumbling

is that fumbling is an instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers while tumbling is the act of something that tumbles.

fumbling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.
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    • tumbling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that tumbles.
  • * (James Howell)
    • These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government
  • * 1838 , Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist (page 176)
    • Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.