gropeverb
uk/ɡrəʊp/us/ɡroʊp/[ I or T ] to feel with your hands, especially in order to find or move towards something when you cannot see easily:
She groped for her glasses on the bedside table.
I had to grope my way up the dark stairs.
[ T ] informal to touch someone's body in order to get sexual pleasure, usually when the person does not like it:
He groped me as I was going to the bar.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- quest
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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Phrasal verb(s)
grope for sth
gropenoun [ C ]
uk/ɡrəʊp/us/ɡroʊp/informala sexual touch, usually an unwanted and unpleasant one