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verb-intransitive. To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way: groped for the telephone.

verb-intransitive. To search blindly or uncertainly: grope for an answer.

v. To make (one's way) by reaching about uncertainly.

v. Slang To handle or fondle for sexual pleasure.

n. The act or an instance of groping.

v. To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

v. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

v. To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually

v. To examine; to test; to sound.

n. An act of groping, especially sexually.

n. an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel

verb-intransitive. To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

verb-intransitive. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

v. To search out by feeling in the dark.

v. To examine; to test; to sound.

To seize or touch with or as if with the hands; grasp in any way; feel; perceive.

To search out by the sense of touch alone; find or ascertain by feeling about with the hands, as in the dark or when blind.

To use the hands; handle.

To feel about with the hands in search of something, as in the dark or as a blind person; feel one's way in darkness or obscurity; hence, to attempt anything blindly or tentatively.

Specifically To feel for fish under the bank of a brook. I. Walton. See gropple.

n. the act of groping; and instance of groping

v. fondle for sexual pleasure

v. search blindly or uncertainly

v. feel about uncertainly or blindly

"But let me make one comment about what's just happened in response to what you called grope-gate, Larry."

groped    gropes    groping   

touch    touching    fondle    caress    attempt    assay    essay    try    seek    search   

groped    groping   

handle    examine    test    sound    feel    search    grabble    puzzled   

Hope    Nope    Pope    bronchoscope    cope    dope    elope    hope    lope    mope   

plead    surmise    obeisance    contretemps