Dictionary Entry
grope
grope is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feel with or use the hands; to handle. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
- 4transitive verb
To examine; to test; to sound.
- 5noun
the act of groping; and instance of groping
- 6verb
fondle for sexual pleasure
"He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
- 7verb
feel about uncertainly or blindly
"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
Synonyms
- 8verb
search blindly or uncertainly
"His mind groped to make the connection"
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