Definition of grope in English:

grope

verb ɡrəʊpɡroʊp

1no object, with adverbial Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
she groped for her spectacles
Example sentencesExamples
- Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
- It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby.
- Enveloped in a rack of old, heavy coats, he reached up blindly, groping in the air until his hand closed on a string.
- I reached down for my sweatshirt, groping around for the pockets and then for the box of aspirin.
- Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along.
- The dentist returned to find me with my head between my knees, and one arm groping blindly for the stop button on the VCR.
- He groped blindly in the dark for the telephone, almost knocking it over instead of picking it up.
- Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes.
- He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it.
- He groaned inwardly, and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver.
- Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob.
- Against her shoulder she could feel Erik's hand groping blindly in the darkness for a sign of her or Isabella.
- He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs.
- She shook her head despite his grip, her hands groping blindly for her knives only to gather more cuts and bruises from the broken bottles lying on the floor.
- She was starting to cry from the fury felt inside of her, and she blindly groped inside of the silverware drawer.
- I grope blindly and my hand finds a paperweight on the end table, a lump of volcanic glass that Emily picked up on our honeymoon in Hawaii.
- "Run, " says Tom, but the gang breaks into pursuit while Tom, trying to hold the pace, gropes in his backpack.
- I reach down to the floor and grope around for my phone.
- He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule.
- It didn't take long, however, for the ringing to resemble a chainsaw splitting through my head, so I blindly groped under my bed for the cordless.
Synonyms
fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret (about/around), rummage (about/around/round), root about/around, feel, cast about/around/round, search, hunt, look
British informal rootle around
rare grabble, roust around
1. 1.1 Move along uncertainly by feeling objects as one goes.
  she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door
  Example sentencesExamples
  The wife gets out of bed and gropes down the dark corridor barefoot.
  Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door.
  He stood and groped his way to the edge of the clearing.
  I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest.
  The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly.
  They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship.
  Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path?
  Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen.
  As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow.
  She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding.
  She felt around and realised it was a tent she had landed in and groped her way out.
  Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet.
  Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid.
  When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall.
  I groped my way along the bottom of the boat and popped up into the rapids.
  Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs.
  He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate.
  Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs.
  The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling.
  Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
2. 1.2grope for Search uncertainly for (a word or answer) in one's mind.
  she was groping for the words which would express what she thought
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career.
  I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words.
  I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found.
  It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style.
  The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact.
  But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection.
  Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer.
  Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy.
  If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth.
  He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word.
  They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope.
  When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions.
  Perhaps he groped for words he had not yet been taught.
  He listened patiently and I groped for the words.
  That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you.
  I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp.
  ‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none.
  How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition.
  Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
  They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word.
2informal with object Fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure roughly or clumsily, or without the person's consent.
I don't want strangers groping me
they groped each other wildly in the taxi
Example sentencesExamples
- The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her.
- They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave.
- Why should I just sit back and let those sluttish women flirt and grope him?
- But I don't want you sneaking around, groping your boyfriend and thinking you're pulling off a fast one.
- This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court.
- Nathan felt his anger flare as he watched the man grope at Marie.
- A shop assistant accused of groping a customer as he measured her for a ‘perfect pair of jeans’ has been cleared of molesting her.
- As I got closer, I saw that he was groping her and saying disgusting things.
- Along about midnight I was awakened by a man's hands groping me.
- A police PR chief who wrote an anti-sexism guide for officers has been sacked for groping colleagues and downloading porn.
- At least it looks better than the poorly-disguised groping you two are pulling off right now.
- Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you?
- And what's more, I understand that he actually gropes people who work on his show.
- A doctor accused of groping a woman patient during an eye examination yesterday admitted touching her breast.
- He had been groping me all over up until that point.
- According to the scientists, who carried out the studies, the octopus gropes potential partners with what they term a ‘specially modified arm’ to establish the sex of the partner.
- I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him.
- He was groping her under her shirt with his right hand while his left hand was trying to get through the waist band of her pants.
- Some plain-clothes police beat, abused and sexually groped women demonstrators.
- She went off into the throng of people being groped on the dance floor.
Synonyms
fondle, touch
molest, interfere with, assault, sexually assault, abuse, sexually abuse
informal paw, maul, feel up, touch up, goose

noun ɡrəʊpɡroʊp

informal

An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.
she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope
Example sentencesExamples
- When I was a student, the odd grope was as far as it went.
- The warriors made quite a fuss over Sara as she moved among them, making boozy offers and launching flagrant gropes.
- Under that umbrella in Colorado as I understand it, this could be anything from a mild grope to almost rape.
- I was surprised as I felt the sudden grope of two hands upon my rear.
- Were threats really worse than innocent gropes?
- What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for?
- But there are limits: the grope must take place in a semi-private cubicle, in a strip club, and can't involve touching genitals.
- Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable.
- David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers.
- After a few gropes, and more kissing, I made my excuses and left.
- By all accounts, his under-the-table gropes and nightclub come-ons had women fleeing in their droves.
- Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits.
- And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.
- Certainly, his behaviour was less than civilized: finding her asleep on the floor, he does the good thing of covering her up but takes the chance of a bit of a grope as he does so, for which he gets a good slapping.
- We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars.
- And although he admired the breasts, he never dared instigate a quick grope of them.
- But the ‘brushes’ became definite gropes and feels.
- What mathematical model could account for the happily married successful man risking marriage and career for a meaningless drunken grope with the office tart at the Christmas party?
Synonyms
fondle, grope, caress, hug, embrace, cuddle

Derivatives

gropingly

adverb ˈɡrəʊpɪŋliˈɡroʊpɪŋli

Through feeling in its emotional sense the body moves forward gropingly into the world.
Example sentencesExamples
- The more sombre, gropingly textured ritual of the Piano Trio is followed by an 86-second Piano Etude - the first of four solos by him for piano, violin and cello - that is like a fantasia on one note.
- It is a journey of faith that must move ahead gropingly.
- In a low glass vitrine, for example, could be found the faxed correspondence in which he gropingly elaborated the state of mind that led to his project.
- Once in a cab, I saw in front of the Plaza at the pedestrian crossing, a blind man feeling his way across the road, gropingly with his stick.

Origin

Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe.

Rhymes

aslope, cope, dope, elope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, soap, taupe, tope, trope

Definition of grope in US English:

grope

verbɡroʊpɡrōp

1no object, with adverbial Feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands.
she got up and groped for her spectacles
Example sentencesExamples
- It didn't take long, however, for the ringing to resemble a chainsaw splitting through my head, so I blindly groped under my bed for the cordless.
- Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
- Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes.
- He groped blindly in the dark for the telephone, almost knocking it over instead of picking it up.
- She shook her head despite his grip, her hands groping blindly for her knives only to gather more cuts and bruises from the broken bottles lying on the floor.
- She was starting to cry from the fury felt inside of her, and she blindly groped inside of the silverware drawer.
- Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob.
- I reached down for my sweatshirt, groping around for the pockets and then for the box of aspirin.
- Enveloped in a rack of old, heavy coats, he reached up blindly, groping in the air until his hand closed on a string.
- I grope blindly and my hand finds a paperweight on the end table, a lump of volcanic glass that Emily picked up on our honeymoon in Hawaii.
- Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along.
- The dentist returned to find me with my head between my knees, and one arm groping blindly for the stop button on the VCR.
- He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule.
- Against her shoulder she could feel Erik's hand groping blindly in the darkness for a sign of her or Isabella.
- He groaned inwardly, and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver.
- He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs.
- He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it.
- It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby.
- I reach down to the floor and grope around for my phone.
- "Run, " says Tom, but the gang breaks into pursuit while Tom, trying to hold the pace, gropes in his backpack.
Synonyms
fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret, ferret about, ferret around, rummage, rummage about, rummage around, rummage round, root about, root around, feel, cast about, cast around, cast round, search, hunt, look
1. 1.1 Move along with difficulty by feeling objects as one goes.
  she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door
  Example sentencesExamples
  I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest.
  Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs.
  The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling.
  She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding.
  Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet.
  Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs.
  She felt around and realised it was a tent she had landed in and groped her way out.
  As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow.
  When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall.
  They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship.
  I groped my way along the bottom of the boat and popped up into the rapids.
  Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen.
  Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
  The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly.
  Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid.
  Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door.
  Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path?
  He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate.
  The wife gets out of bed and gropes down the dark corridor barefoot.
  He stood and groped his way to the edge of the clearing.
2. 1.2grope for Search mentally with hesitation or uncertainty for (a word or answer)
  she was groping for the words which would express what she thought
  their groping attempts to create a more meaningful existence
  Example sentencesExamples
  But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection.
  They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word.
  If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth.
  When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions.
  How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition.
  He listened patiently and I groped for the words.
  Perhaps he groped for words he had not yet been taught.
  The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact.
  Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer.
  Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy.
  ‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none.
  It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style.
  They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope.
  That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you.
  I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found.
  Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career.
  He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word.
  I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp.
  Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
  I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words.
2informal with object Feel or fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure, especially against their will.
I don't want strangers groping me
they groped each other wildly in the taxi
Example sentencesExamples
- They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave.
- He was groping her under her shirt with his right hand while his left hand was trying to get through the waist band of her pants.
- A shop assistant accused of groping a customer as he measured her for a ‘perfect pair of jeans’ has been cleared of molesting her.
- Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you?
- Some plain-clothes police beat, abused and sexually groped women demonstrators.
- Nathan felt his anger flare as he watched the man grope at Marie.
- She went off into the throng of people being groped on the dance floor.
- According to the scientists, who carried out the studies, the octopus gropes potential partners with what they term a ‘specially modified arm’ to establish the sex of the partner.
- A doctor accused of groping a woman patient during an eye examination yesterday admitted touching her breast.
- And what's more, I understand that he actually gropes people who work on his show.
- But I don't want you sneaking around, groping your boyfriend and thinking you're pulling off a fast one.
- As I got closer, I saw that he was groping her and saying disgusting things.
- At least it looks better than the poorly-disguised groping you two are pulling off right now.
- Why should I just sit back and let those sluttish women flirt and grope him?
- The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her.
- This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court.
- I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him.
- He had been groping me all over up until that point.
- Along about midnight I was awakened by a man's hands groping me.
- A police PR chief who wrote an anti-sexism guide for officers has been sacked for groping colleagues and downloading porn.
Synonyms
fondle, touch

nounɡroʊpɡrōp

informal

An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.
she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope
Example sentencesExamples
- Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable.
- Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits.
- But there are limits: the grope must take place in a semi-private cubicle, in a strip club, and can't involve touching genitals.
- When I was a student, the odd grope was as far as it went.
- Certainly, his behaviour was less than civilized: finding her asleep on the floor, he does the good thing of covering her up but takes the chance of a bit of a grope as he does so, for which he gets a good slapping.
- After a few gropes, and more kissing, I made my excuses and left.
- The warriors made quite a fuss over Sara as she moved among them, making boozy offers and launching flagrant gropes.
- And although he admired the breasts, he never dared instigate a quick grope of them.
- Under that umbrella in Colorado as I understand it, this could be anything from a mild grope to almost rape.
- I was surprised as I felt the sudden grope of two hands upon my rear.
- We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars.
- Were threats really worse than innocent gropes?
- By all accounts, his under-the-table gropes and nightclub come-ons had women fleeing in their droves.
- And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.
- David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers.
- But the ‘brushes’ became definite gropes and feels.
- What mathematical model could account for the happily married successful man risking marriage and career for a meaningless drunken grope with the office tart at the Christmas party?
- What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for?
Synonyms
fondle, grope, caress, hug, embrace, cuddle

Origin

Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe.

单词	grope
释义	Definition of grope in English: grope verb ɡrəʊpɡroʊp 1no object, with adverbial Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands. she groped for her spectacles Example sentencesExamples Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions. It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby. Enveloped in a rack of old, heavy coats, he reached up blindly, groping in the air until his hand closed on a string. I reached down for my sweatshirt, groping around for the pockets and then for the box of aspirin. Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along. The dentist returned to find me with my head between my knees, and one arm groping blindly for the stop button on the VCR. He groped blindly in the dark for the telephone, almost knocking it over instead of picking it up. Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes. He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it. He groaned inwardly, and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver. Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob. Against her shoulder she could feel Erik's hand groping blindly in the darkness for a sign of her or Isabella. He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs. She shook her head despite his grip, her hands groping blindly for her knives only to gather more cuts and bruises from the broken bottles lying on the floor. She was starting to cry from the fury felt inside of her, and she blindly groped inside of the silverware drawer. I grope blindly and my hand finds a paperweight on the end table, a lump of volcanic glass that Emily picked up on our honeymoon in Hawaii. "Run, " says Tom, but the gang breaks into pursuit while Tom, trying to hold the pace, gropes in his backpack. I reach down to the floor and grope around for my phone. He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule. It didn't take long, however, for the ringing to resemble a chainsaw splitting through my head, so I blindly groped under my bed for the cordless. Synonyms fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret (about/around), rummage (about/around/round), root about/around, feel, cast about/around/round, search, hunt, look British informal rootle around rare grabble, roust around 1.1 Move along uncertainly by feeling objects as one goes. she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door Example sentencesExamples The wife gets out of bed and gropes down the dark corridor barefoot. Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door. He stood and groped his way to the edge of the clearing. I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest. The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly. They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship. Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path? Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen. As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow. She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding. She felt around and realised it was a tent she had landed in and groped her way out. Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet. Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid. When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall. I groped my way along the bottom of the boat and popped up into the rapids. Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs. He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate. Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs. The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling. Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there. 1.2grope for Search uncertainly for (a word or answer) in one's mind. she was groping for the words which would express what she thought Example sentencesExamples Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career. I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words. I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found. It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style. The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact. But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection. Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer. Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy. If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth. He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions. Perhaps he groped for words he had not yet been taught. He listened patiently and I groped for the words. That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you. I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp. ‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none. How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition. Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity. They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word. 2informal with object Fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure roughly or clumsily, or without the person's consent. I don't want strangers groping me they groped each other wildly in the taxi Example sentencesExamples The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her. They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave. Why should I just sit back and let those sluttish women flirt and grope him? But I don't want you sneaking around, groping your boyfriend and thinking you're pulling off a fast one. This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court. Nathan felt his anger flare as he watched the man grope at Marie. A shop assistant accused of groping a customer as he measured her for a ‘perfect pair of jeans’ has been cleared of molesting her. As I got closer, I saw that he was groping her and saying disgusting things. Along about midnight I was awakened by a man's hands groping me. A police PR chief who wrote an anti-sexism guide for officers has been sacked for groping colleagues and downloading porn. At least it looks better than the poorly-disguised groping you two are pulling off right now. Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you? And what's more, I understand that he actually gropes people who work on his show. A doctor accused of groping a woman patient during an eye examination yesterday admitted touching her breast. He had been groping me all over up until that point. According to the scientists, who carried out the studies, the octopus gropes potential partners with what they term a ‘specially modified arm’ to establish the sex of the partner. I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him. He was groping her under her shirt with his right hand while his left hand was trying to get through the waist band of her pants. Some plain-clothes police beat, abused and sexually groped women demonstrators. She went off into the throng of people being groped on the dance floor. Synonyms fondle, touch molest, interfere with, assault, sexually assault, abuse, sexually abuse informal paw, maul, feel up, touch up, goose noun ɡrəʊpɡroʊp informal An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure. she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope Example sentencesExamples When I was a student, the odd grope was as far as it went. The warriors made quite a fuss over Sara as she moved among them, making boozy offers and launching flagrant gropes. Under that umbrella in Colorado as I understand it, this could be anything from a mild grope to almost rape. I was surprised as I felt the sudden grope of two hands upon my rear. Were threats really worse than innocent gropes? What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for? But there are limits: the grope must take place in a semi-private cubicle, in a strip club, and can't involve touching genitals. Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable. David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers. After a few gropes, and more kissing, I made my excuses and left. By all accounts, his under-the-table gropes and nightclub come-ons had women fleeing in their droves. Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits. And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark. Certainly, his behaviour was less than civilized: finding her asleep on the floor, he does the good thing of covering her up but takes the chance of a bit of a grope as he does so, for which he gets a good slapping. We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars. And although he admired the breasts, he never dared instigate a quick grope of them. But the ‘brushes’ became definite gropes and feels. What mathematical model could account for the happily married successful man risking marriage and career for a meaningless drunken grope with the office tart at the Christmas party? Synonyms fondle, grope, caress, hug, embrace, cuddle Derivatives gropingly adverb ˈɡrəʊpɪŋliˈɡroʊpɪŋli Through feeling in its emotional sense the body moves forward gropingly into the world. Example sentencesExamples The more sombre, gropingly textured ritual of the Piano Trio is followed by an 86-second Piano Etude - the first of four solos by him for piano, violin and cello - that is like a fantasia on one note. It is a journey of faith that must move ahead gropingly. In a low glass vitrine, for example, could be found the faxed correspondence in which he gropingly elaborated the state of mind that led to his project. Once in a cab, I saw in front of the Plaza at the pedestrian crossing, a blind man feeling his way across the road, gropingly with his stick. Origin Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe. Rhymes aslope, cope, dope, elope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, soap, taupe, tope, trope Definition of grope in US English: grope verbɡroʊpɡrōp 1no object, with adverbial Feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands. she got up and groped for her spectacles Example sentencesExamples It didn't take long, however, for the ringing to resemble a chainsaw splitting through my head, so I blindly groped under my bed for the cordless. Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions. Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes. He groped blindly in the dark for the telephone, almost knocking it over instead of picking it up. She shook her head despite his grip, her hands groping blindly for her knives only to gather more cuts and bruises from the broken bottles lying on the floor. She was starting to cry from the fury felt inside of her, and she blindly groped inside of the silverware drawer. Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob. I reached down for my sweatshirt, groping around for the pockets and then for the box of aspirin. Enveloped in a rack of old, heavy coats, he reached up blindly, groping in the air until his hand closed on a string. I grope blindly and my hand finds a paperweight on the end table, a lump of volcanic glass that Emily picked up on our honeymoon in Hawaii. Her hands groped along the floor in front of her and she attempted to pull her painful, gasping body along. The dentist returned to find me with my head between my knees, and one arm groping blindly for the stop button on the VCR. He groped in his back pocket and handed me his schedule. Against her shoulder she could feel Erik's hand groping blindly in the darkness for a sign of her or Isabella. He groaned inwardly, and began to grope along his side table, trying to find the receiver. He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs. He kneeled down, looking under the seat, and he groped blindly for the pen, stretching to get it. It was too early to kill him, so I blinked rather blearily instead, groping around blindly for my glasses, and noticed two pairs of feet standing nearby. I reach down to the floor and grope around for my phone. "Run, " says Tom, but the gang breaks into pursuit while Tom, trying to hold the pace, gropes in his backpack. Synonyms fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret, ferret about, ferret around, rummage, rummage about, rummage around, rummage round, root about, root around, feel, cast about, cast around, cast round, search, hunt, look 1.1 Move along with difficulty by feeling objects as one goes. she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door Example sentencesExamples I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest. Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs. The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling. She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding. Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet. Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs. She felt around and realised it was a tent she had landed in and groped her way out. As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow. When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall. They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship. I groped my way along the bottom of the boat and popped up into the rapids. Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen. Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there. The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly. Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid. Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door. Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path? He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate. The wife gets out of bed and gropes down the dark corridor barefoot. He stood and groped his way to the edge of the clearing. 1.2grope for Search mentally with hesitation or uncertainty for (a word or answer) she was groping for the words which would express what she thought their groping attempts to create a more meaningful existence Example sentencesExamples But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection. They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word. If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth. When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions. How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition. He listened patiently and I groped for the words. Perhaps he groped for words he had not yet been taught. The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact. Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer. Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy. ‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none. It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you. I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found. Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career. He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word. I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp. Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity. I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words. 2informal with object Feel or fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure, especially against their will. I don't want strangers groping me they groped each other wildly in the taxi Example sentencesExamples They were practically groping him, grabbing his shoulders and tugging on his shirt, even as he turned to leave. He was groping her under her shirt with his right hand while his left hand was trying to get through the waist band of her pants. A shop assistant accused of groping a customer as he measured her for a ‘perfect pair of jeans’ has been cleared of molesting her. Aren't you going to shout at me for groping you? Some plain-clothes police beat, abused and sexually groped women demonstrators. Nathan felt his anger flare as he watched the man grope at Marie. She went off into the throng of people being groped on the dance floor. According to the scientists, who carried out the studies, the octopus gropes potential partners with what they term a ‘specially modified arm’ to establish the sex of the partner. A doctor accused of groping a woman patient during an eye examination yesterday admitted touching her breast. And what's more, I understand that he actually gropes people who work on his show. But I don't want you sneaking around, groping your boyfriend and thinking you're pulling off a fast one. As I got closer, I saw that he was groping her and saying disgusting things. At least it looks better than the poorly-disguised groping you two are pulling off right now. Why should I just sit back and let those sluttish women flirt and grope him? The girl told her the defendant had been touching her, interfering with her and groping her. This was a loser who thought he could get away with groping her on the court. I don't want to date someone who has to let people grope him. He had been groping me all over up until that point. Along about midnight I was awakened by a man's hands groping me. A police PR chief who wrote an anti-sexism guide for officers has been sacked for groping colleagues and downloading porn. Synonyms fondle, touch nounɡroʊpɡrōp informal An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure. she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope Example sentencesExamples Before then, dope smoke and the fast grope made a trip to the seashore in March seem acceptable. Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits. But there are limits: the grope must take place in a semi-private cubicle, in a strip club, and can't involve touching genitals. When I was a student, the odd grope was as far as it went. Certainly, his behaviour was less than civilized: finding her asleep on the floor, he does the good thing of covering her up but takes the chance of a bit of a grope as he does so, for which he gets a good slapping. After a few gropes, and more kissing, I made my excuses and left. The warriors made quite a fuss over Sara as she moved among them, making boozy offers and launching flagrant gropes. And although he admired the breasts, he never dared instigate a quick grope of them. Under that umbrella in Colorado as I understand it, this could be anything from a mild grope to almost rape. I was surprised as I felt the sudden grope of two hands upon my rear. We stood at the public bar and demanded schooners, copping the jeers, sexual jibes and gropes of the regulars. Were threats really worse than innocent gropes? By all accounts, his under-the-table gropes and nightclub come-ons had women fleeing in their droves. And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark. David and I are often to be found by our friends having a quick grope, like a couple of teenagers. But the ‘brushes’ became definite gropes and feels. What mathematical model could account for the happily married successful man risking marriage and career for a meaningless drunken grope with the office tart at the Christmas party? What of the gropes, the bullying, the sadistic humiliations he said he was responsible for? Synonyms fondle, grope, caress, hug, embrace, cuddle Origin Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe.
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