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adjective
1.
moving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling.
2.
showing or reflecting a desire to understand, especially something that proves puzzling: a groping scrutiny; a groping expression.
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Groping
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- It is little wonder, given this, that people of goodwill are groping for a safer alternative.
- Without a clear framework of ideas, he was still groping in the dark.
- The place is a tangle of lips and tongues and hands, all groping and exploring.
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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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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
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 early 14c. Indecent sense (marked as "obsolete" in OED) is from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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