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grope
[grohp]
verb, groped, grop⋅ing, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch. |
| 2. | to search blindly or uncertainly: He seemed to be groping for an answer to the question. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to seek by or as if by groping: to grope one's way up the dark stairs. |
| 4. | to touch or handle (someone) for sexual pleasure. |
–noun
| 5. | an act or instance of groping. |
| 6. | Slang. an act or instance of sexually fondling another person. |
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Grope
Grope\ (gr[=o]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped (gr[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr[=a]pian to touch, grope, fr. gr[imac]pan to gripe. See Gripe.]1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs.] 2. 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. We grope for the wall like the blind. --Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. --Buckminster.Grope
Grope\, v. t. 1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight. 2. To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. --Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).
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Language Translation for : grope
Spanish:
andar, *buscar a tientas, tantear,
German:
tasten,
Japanese:
手探りする
grope
O.E. grapian "to feel about as one blind or in darkness," originally "to feel or handle," related to gripan "grasp at" (see gripe). Fig. sense is from c.1325. Indecent sense (marked as "obsolete" in OED) is from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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