grope
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grope
- /ɡɹəʊp/ UK
- /ɡɹoʊp/ US
Rhymes with -əʊp
Where it comes from
From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip.
verb gropes · groping · groped
- To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
- 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. a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon to grope about a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
- To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. The parents found the couple kissing and groping.
- To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification. That old man groped that girl on the train!
- To examine; to test; to sound. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
noun gropes
- An act of groping, especially sexually. The old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.
- An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel. Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.
