Grope
verb
To search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
She groped for her glasses in the dark.
Often appears as...
- groped in the dark
- groped around
verb
To touch or handle someone for sexual pleasure, often when it is not wanted.
He was accused of groping a woman at the party.
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Disapproving
verb
To make a vague or random search.
He spent years groping for a solution to the problem.
Often appears as...
- groping for answers
- groping for words
verb
To search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
She groped for her glasses in the dark.
Often appears as...
- groped in the dark
- groped around
verb
To touch or handle someone for sexual pleasure, often when it is not wanted.
He was accused of groping a woman at the party.
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To make a vague or random search.
He spent years groping for a solution to the problem.
Often appears as...
- groping for answers
- groping for words
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Searching
Used when someone is physically searching for something by feeling, usually without sight.
In the blackout, I groped along the wall trying to find the light switch.
Pro Tip 2/2Figurative Use
Sometimes, it's not about physical search but about a struggle to understand or remember something.
During the interview, he groped for the right words to express his skills.
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Searching
Used when someone is physically searching for something by feeling, usually without sight.
In the blackout, I groped along the wall trying to find the light switch.
Pro Tip 2/2Figurative Use
Sometimes, it's not about physical search but about a struggle to understand or remember something.
During the interview, he groped for the right words to express his skills.
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Searching
Used when someone is physically searching for something by feeling, usually without sight.
In the blackout, I groped along the wall trying to find the light switch.
Pro Tip 2/2Figurative Use
Sometimes, it's not about physical search but about a struggle to understand or remember something.
During the interview, he groped for the right words to express his skills.
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The Tortoise and the...
turbine to generate electricity what I'm standing underneath is a heliostat thing the holds two mirrors and those mirrors are used to reflect sunlight onto the boiler that you see right behind me what you're looking at here totaling 392 megawatts gropes output is the equivalent of a medium-sized natural gas
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Held Captive by...
We were tied up, we couldn't go anywhere. At that point as the fighting got closer they decided they wanted us to live. The entire time we were punched in the face. The men were smashed in the back of the head with gun-butts and I was groped. That went on for the first three days.
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Meera Vijayann: Find...
She said she was stalked, groped, and masturbated at. Now, late that evening, the report went viral. It was on news channels across the world. Everyone was discussing it. It had over a million views, a thousand comments and shares, and I found myself witnessing
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Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.
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Luis H. Zayas: The...
And she dropped to her hands and knees, and she began to look under the table, groping under all the chairs. She looked at the electric sockets, at the corner of the room, the floor, the corner of the ceiling,
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To raise brave girls,...
my mask was knocked sideways, and there was this moment of confusion. And then I picked myself up, I groped for the nozzle, and I did what a firefighter was supposed to I lunged forward, opened up the water
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Rediscovering ourselves...
beginnings since when did we become afraid of the night and that only the bright stars count or that our moon is not a moon unless it is full by his command were the animals through groping
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How we can end sexual...
one of the most well-known and richest singers in the world, didn't need more money or fame when she came forward with her groping case for one dollar. And I'm so glad she did. Breaking
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4 Powerful Poems about...
Barefoot, careful on the slick slate slabs, I need no light, I know the way, stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair, spread a shawl, and sit,
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Safari Live - Day 300 PIPE...
look at the waves just groping on with his claws Palin's
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The Tortoise and the...
turbine to generate electricity what I'm standing underneath is a heliostat thing the holds two mirrors and those mirrors are used to reflect sunlight onto the boiler that you see right behind me what you're looking at here totaling 392 megawatts gropes output is the equivalent of a medium-sized natural gas
Video examples
Held Captive by...
We were tied up, we couldn't go anywhere. At that point as the fighting got closer they decided they wanted us to live. The entire time we were punched in the face. The men were smashed in the back of the head with gun-butts and I was groped. That went on for the first three days.
Video examples
Meera Vijayann: Find...
She said she was stalked, groped, and masturbated at. Now, late that evening, the report went viral. It was on news channels across the world. Everyone was discussing it. It had over a million views, a thousand comments and shares, and I found myself witnessing
Video examples
Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.
Video examples
Luis H. Zayas: The...
And she dropped to her hands and knees, and she began to look under the table, groping under all the chairs. She looked at the electric sockets, at the corner of the room, the floor, the corner of the ceiling,
Video examples
To raise brave girls,...
my mask was knocked sideways, and there was this moment of confusion. And then I picked myself up, I groped for the nozzle, and I did what a firefighter was supposed to I lunged forward, opened up the water
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
beginnings since when did we become afraid of the night and that only the bright stars count or that our moon is not a moon unless it is full by his command were the animals through groping
Video examples
How we can end sexual...
one of the most well-known and richest singers in the world, didn't need more money or fame when she came forward with her groping case for one dollar. And I'm so glad she did. Breaking
Video examples
4 Powerful Poems about...
Barefoot, careful on the slick slate slabs, I need no light, I know the way, stoop by the mint bed, scoop a fistful of moist earth, then grope for a chair, spread a shawl, and sit,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 300 PIPE...
look at the waves just groping on with his claws Palin's
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
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Joanna Scott
American Author
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.
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Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian Artist
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
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Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
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Ethel Barrymore
American Actress
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
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Campbell Brown
American Journalist
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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George H. W. Bush
American President
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
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Alexander Payne
American Director
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
Quote examples
Joanna Scott
American Author
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
Quote examples
Sandi Toksvig
British Writer
I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing.
Quote examples
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian Artist
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
Quote examples
Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.
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Ethel Barrymore
American Actress
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
Quote examples
Campbell Brown
American Journalist
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
Quote examples
George H. W. Bush
American President
I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.
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Alexander Payne
American Director
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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