[VERB 动词]摸索；探寻 If you grope for something that you cannot see, you try to find it by moving your hands around in order to feel it.
[V for n]
[V adv/prep]
With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open...
他左手摸索着门把手，转动一下，然后推开门。
Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet.
邦伯里手伸进前胸口袋里摸索钱包。
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[VERB 动词]摸索着走 If you grope your way to a place, you move there, holding your hands in front of you and feeling the way because you cannot see anything.
[V way prep/adv]
I didn't turn on the light, but groped my way across the room.
我没有开灯，而是一路摸黑走过房间。
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[VERB 动词]探索；努力寻求 If you grope for something, for example the solution to a problem, you try to think of it, when you have no real idea what it could be.
[V for n]
[Also V towards n]
He groped for solutions to the problems facing the country...
他在探求国家所面临问题的解决办法。
She groped for a simple word to express a simple idea.
她想找个简单的词来表达简单的想法。
groping
They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement.
他们继续寻求合乎宪法规定的解决方案。
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[VERB 动词]抚摸；猥亵 If one person gropes another, they touch or take hold of them in a rough, sexual way.
[V n]
[disapproval]
[INFORMAL 非正式]
He would try to grope her breasts and put his hand up her skirt.
他会试图摸她的胸部，还把手从她的裙子上向上移。
Grope is also a noun.
She even boasted of having a grope in a cupboard with a 13-year-old.
她甚至吹嘘曾和一个13岁的男孩在衣橱里有过肌肤之亲。
Oxford
grope/ɡrəʊp; NAmEɡroʊp/
verb
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noun
gropegropesgropedgropingverb1[intransitive ]grope(around)(for sth) to try and find sth that you cannot see, by feeling with your hands 摸索；搜索；搜寻；探寻◆He groped around in the dark for his other sock.他在黑暗中到处瞎摸找另一只袜子。◆( figurative) ‘It's so…, so…’ I was groping for the right word to describe it.“它是那么…，那么…”我想找一个恰当的字眼来描述它。2[transitive , intransitive ]to try and reach a place by feeling with your hands because you cannot see clearly （用手）摸索着往前走~ your way + adv./prep.◆He groped his way up the staircase in the dark.他摸黑走上楼梯。+ adv./prep.◆She groped through the darkness towards the doors.她摸黑朝门口走去。3[transitive ]gropesb ( informal) to touch sb sexually, especially when they do not want you to 猥亵；摸（某人）noun( informal) an act of gropingsb (= touching them sexually) 猥亵；摸grope/ɡrəʊp; NAmEɡroʊp/
LDC
grope1 verb
grope2 noun
gropegrope1 /ɡrəʊp $ ɡroʊp/ verb
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1[intransitive] to try to find something that you cannot see by feeling with your handsgrope for Ginny groped for her glasses on the bedside table.grope around We groped around in the darkness.2[intransitive, transitive] to go somewhere by feeling the way with your hands because you cannot seegrope your way along/across etc I was groping my way blindly through the trees. Ally groped steadily towards the door.3 grope for something to try hard to find the right words to say or the right solution to a problem but without any real idea of how to do this: She hesitated, seeming to grope for words.4[transitive] informal to move your hands over someone’s body to get sexual pleasure, especially when they do not want you to do this
grope1 verb
grope2 noun
gropegrope2 noun [countable usually singular]
Examples
informal touching someone’s body to get sexual pleasure, especially when they do not want you to do this
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