Usually means: Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. grope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grope, grope: Wordnik
  7. grope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grope: Wiktionary
  9. grope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grope: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grope, grope: Dictionary.com
  13. grope: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grope: Rhymezone
  19. grope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grope: Free Dictionary
  22. grope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grope: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. grope: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. grope: Legal dictionary

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  1. grope: Encyclopedia

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  1. grope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GROPE: Acronym Finder
  2. grope: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grope, grope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grope: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See groped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
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.
verb:  To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
verb:  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.
verb:  (obsolete) To examine; to test; to sound.
noun:  (informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
noun:  (obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.

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