palm vs fumble

palm and fumble both are nouns.

palm and fumble both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
palm	Yes	No	Yes	No
fumble	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, fumble is a hyponym of palm; that is, fumble is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than palm:

palm: touch, lift, or hold with the hands
fumble: handle clumsily

Other hyponyms of palm include field, manipulate, manhandle.

palm (noun)	fumble (noun)
the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers	(sports) dropping the ball
an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand

palm (verb)	fumble (verb)
touch, lift, or hold with the hands	drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
	feel about uncertainly or blindly
	handle clumsily
	make one's way clumsily or blindly
	make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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