searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
scrabbled — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
felt — simple past tense and past participle of feel.
dug — a simple past tense and past participle of dig1. and dig2 .
stumbled — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
bungled — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
erred — Simple past tense and past participle of err.
floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
fluffed — Simple past tense and past participle of fluff.
goofed — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
spoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
blundered — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
muddled — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
