grope

/grohp/US // groʊp //UK // (ɡrəʊp) //

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

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groped, grop·ing.
- : to feel about with the hands; feel one's way: I had to grope around in the darkness before I found the light switch.
- : to search blindly or uncertainly: He seemed to be groping for an answer to the question.

v.有主动词 verb

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groped, grop·ing.
- : to seek by or as if by groping: to grope one's way up the dark stairs.
- : Slang. to touch or fondle for sexual pleasure, especially without the person’s consent.

n.名词 noun

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- : an act or instance of groping.
- : Slang. an act or instance of sexually fondling another person.

verbfeel about for

Forms: groping

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Female activists handed out flyers depicting a hand emerging from a military uniform and stretching out to grope a frowning woman.
When Winston and some of his friends followed her there and tried to grope her, Brown stabbed Winston in the chest.
Then she closed the door as quietly as possible, and clutching the handrail began to grope her way downstairs.
After a time she managed to grope her way to her bedroom, where, turning up the light, she sank down helplessly upon the bed.
The front room, as I entered to grope for the matches, felt as cold as a stone vault, and the air held an unusual dampness.
It is not merely that I, the fanatic, have had to grope without humour.
It shot out long sinuous pseudopods that seemed to grope angrily.