GROPE
\ɡɹˈə͡ʊp], \ɡɹˈəʊp], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_p]\
Definitions of GROPE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"
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fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
By Princeton University
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search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"
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fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
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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.
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To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
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To examine; to test; to sound.
By Oddity Software
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To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
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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.
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To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
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To examine; to test; to sound.
By Noah Webster.
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To feel one's way with the hands, as in the dark; seek blindly.
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To search out, as in the dark, by feeling with the hands.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(orig.) To gripe or feel with the hands: to search or attempt to find something, as if blind or in the dark.
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To search by feeling, as in the dark.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
