groping
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pɪŋ 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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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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| —vb (usually foll by for) | |
| 1. | to feel or search about uncertainly (for something) with the hands |
| 2. | (intr; |
| 3. | (tr) to find or make (one's way) by groping |
| 4. | slang (tr) to feel or fondle the body of (someone) for sexual gratification |
| —n | |
| 5. | the act of groping |
| [Old English grāpian; related to Old High German greifōn, Norwegian greipa; compare | |
| 'gropingly | |
| —adv | |
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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.
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Example sentences
Its two bitterly opposed wings are groping towards a unity government.
He could sense her groping the air as she tried to give him a kiss.
It evoked an image of zombies, groping their way through life in an impenetrable fog.
Scientists often turn metaphorical when groping for ways to describe their esoteric profession.
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