Fumble vs. Rumble

A fumble in gridiron football occurs when a player who has possession and control of the ball loses it before being downed (tackled), scoring, or going out of bounds. By rule, it is any act other than passing, kicking, punting, or successful handing that results in loss of ball possession by a player.

To make a deep, long, rolling sound.

To touch or handle nervously or idly

To move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound.

To grope awkwardly to find or to accomplish something

(Slang) To engage in a gang fight.

To proceed awkwardly and uncertainly; blunder

To utter with a deep, long, rolling sound.

(Football) To drop a ball that is in play.

To polish or mix (metal parts) in a tumbling box.

(Baseball) To mishandle a ground ball.

A deep, long, rolling sound.

To touch or handle clumsily or idly

A tumbling box.

To make a mess of; bungle.

A luggage compartment or servant's seat in the rear of a carriage.

To feel or make (one's way) awkwardly.

Pervasive, widespread expression of unrest or dissatisfaction.

(Football) To drop (a ball) while in play.

A gang fight.

(Baseball) To mishandle (a ground ball).

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

The act or an instance of fumbling.

(slang) A street fight or brawl.

(Sports) A ball that has been fumbled.

A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

To handle nervously or awkwardly.

(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

To grope awkwardly in trying to find something

(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

(intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.

(transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.

(intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.

To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.

To fight; to brawl.

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.

Of a man, to sexually underperform.

(transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.

A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.

(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.

(British) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.

An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.

To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse.

To murmur; to ripple.

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

A noisy report; rumor.

To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.

(sports) dropping the ball

A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

feel about uncertainly or blindly;

A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

make one's way clumsily or blindly;

a loud low dull continuous noise;

handle clumsily

a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage

make a mess of, destroy or ruin;

a fight between rival gangs of adolescents

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder;

make a low noise;

to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds;