grope

grope has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. i.. To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
• v. i.. 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.
• v. t.. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
• v. t.. To examine; to test; to sound.
• n.. the act of groping; and instance of groping
• v.. fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
• v.. feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
• v.. search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"