The meaning of Grope

verb

Use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse.

Usage examples:

The judge abused his power by imposing the fines

noun

The improper use of something.

Usage examples:

Alcohol abuse

verb

Cruel or inhumane treatment

verb

Make a physical attack on.

Usage examples:

He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer

noun

A physical attack.

Usage examples:

His imprisonment for an assault on the film director

verb

Attack someone physically or emotionally

verb

Be aware of (a person or object) through touching or being touched.

Usage examples:

She felt someone touch her shoulder

noun

An act of touching something to examine it.

Usage examples:

I let him have a feel of my hair and kept saying ‘it's a bit of a shock, isn't it?’ (must have been…

verb

Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state

noun

A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water.

Usage examples:

The huge lakes are now devoid of fish

verb

Catch or try to catch fish, typically by using a net or hook and line.

Usage examples:

He was fishing for pike

verb

Mend or strengthen with a fish.

verb

Stroke or caress lovingly or erotically.

Usage examples:

He kissed and fondled her

noun

An act of fondling.

Usage examples:

A penniless essex university student is auctioning a fondle of her breasts on e-bay to get her thro…

verb

Touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner

verb

Do or handle something clumsily.

Usage examples:

She fumbled with the lock

noun

An act of doing or handling something clumsily.

Usage examples:

Just one fumble during a tyre change could separate the winners from the losers

verb

Feel about uncertainly or blindly

noun

A large waterbird with a long neck, short legs, webbed feet, and a short broad bill. generally geese are larger than ducks and have longer necks and shorter bills.

Usage examples:

It also has contributed to the decrease of water fowl such as duck, geese, curlew, plover and snipe.

verb

Poke (someone) in the bottom.

Usage examples:

Michael nunn and billy trevitt started goosing me in a sensitive spot and i couldn't stop laughing.

noun

A large bird that lives by water

verb

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.

Usage examples:

In the autumn they hunted deer

noun

An act of hunting wild animals or game.

Usage examples:

A bear-hunt

verb

Direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

People were looking at him

noun

An act of directing one's gaze in order to see someone or something.

Usage examples:

Let me get a closer look

exclamation

Used to call attention to what one is going to say.

Usage examples:

‘look, this is ridiculous.’

verb

(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing.

Usage examples:

A man was mauled by a lion at london zoo

noun

(in rugby union) a loose scrum formed around a player with the ball off the ground.

Usage examples:

The grounding of the ball in a driven maul satisfied the touch judge, but not the referee, and anot…

verb

Injure badly

verb

Assault or abuse (a person, especially a woman or child) sexually.

Usage examples:

He was charged with molesting and taking obscene photographs of a ten-year-old boy

verb

Harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to

verb

To touch someone sexually when it is not wanted

Usage examples:

Allegations (= accusations) of drug abuse and child molestation., a child molester

noun

An animal's foot having claws and pads.

Usage examples:

The feet of the throne are modeled after large catlike paws without claws.

verb

(of an animal) feel or scrape with a paw or hoof.

Usage examples:

The horse rose up, its forelegs pawing the air

verb

A clawed foot of an animal, especially a quadruped

phrasal verb

To search for something, especially by looking through other things

Usage examples:

She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

phrasal verb

To search for something, especially by looking through other things

Usage examples:

She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

verb

Scratch or grope around with one's fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something.

Usage examples:

She scrabbled at the grassy slope, desperate for purchase

noun

An act of scratching or scrambling for something.

Usage examples:

He heard the scrabble of claws behind him

verb

To move your hands or fingers quickly to find and pick up something, esp. something that you cannot see

Usage examples:

She scrabbled around in her bag, trying to find her keys.

verb

Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.

Usage examples:

I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing

noun

An act of searching for someone or something.

Usage examples:

The police carried out a thorough search of the premises

verb

Look or seek

verb

Come into or be in contact with.

Usage examples:

He leaned back so that only two legs of his chair touched the floor

noun

An act of touching someone or something.

Usage examples:

Her touch on his shoulder was hesitant

verb

Make physical contact with, come in contact with