Gropes - English meaning

ɡrəʊp

Gropes – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
Usage examples:
She groped for her spectacles
Synonims:
FumbleScrabbleFishFerret (about)Ferret (around)Rummage (about)Rummage (round)Rummage (around)Root aboutRoot aroundFeelCast aboutCast roundCast aroundSearchHuntLookRootle arou
verb
Fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure roughly or clumsily, or without the person's consent.
Usage examples:
I don't want strangers groping me
Synonims:
FondleTouchMolestInterfere withAssaultSexually assaultAbuseSexually abusePawMaulFeel upTouch upGoose

noun
An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.
Usage examples:
She and steve sneaked off for a quick grope

verb
To search for something you cannot see or find easily, esp. by feeling with your hands
Usage examples:
[ i ] she stands on her toes and gropes around on the closet shelf.

verb
To feel with your hands, especially in order to find or move towards something when you cannot see easily
Usage examples:
Grope for she groped for her glasses on the bedside table., grope your way i had to grope my way up…

verb
To touch someone's body in order to get sexual pleasure, usually when the person does not like it
Usage examples:
He groped me as i was going to the bar.

noun
A sexual touch, usually an unwanted and unpleasant one

Gropes translation into English

Gropes: translate from English into Chinese

摸索, 摸

Gropes: translate from English into Dutch

Tast, Tasten, Betasten, Bevoelen, Voelen, Op de tast vinden

Gropes: translate from English into French

Tâtons, Tâtonner, Peloter, Chercher un moyen

Gropes: translate from English into German

Tastet, Tasten, Tappen, Greifen, Fummeln

Gropes: translate from English into Hindi

टटोलना, अंधेरे में टटोलना, अंधे की तरह खोजना

Gropes: translate from English into Italian

Brancola, Brancolare, Annaspare, Andare a tentoni

Gropes: translate from English into Korean

더듬다, 찾다, 손으로 더듬다, 모색하다

Gropes: translate from English into Russian

Нащупывает, Нащупывать, Искать, Ощупывать, Искать ощупью, Идти ощупью, Ощупывание

Gropes: translate from English into Spanish

Manosea, Ir a tientas

Word origin

Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe.

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Gropes – similar words

groped

ɡrəʊp

verb
Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
Usage examples:
She groped for her spectacles

noun
An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.
Usage examples:
She and steve sneaked off for a quick grope

verb
Past simple and past participle of grope
Usage examples:
She groped for her glasses on the bedside table., i had to grope my way up the dark stairs., he gro…

Groped - all meanings in English

grope

ɡrəʊp

verb
Search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands.
Usage examples:
She groped for her spectacles

noun
An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.
Usage examples:
She and steve sneaked off for a quick grope

verb
Feel about uncertainly or blindly

Grope - all meanings in English

Gropes synonims

abuse

əˈbjuːz

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

Abuse - all meanings in English

assault

əˈsɒlt

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

Assault - all meanings in English

feel

fiːl

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

Feel - all meanings in English

fish

fɪʃ

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.

Fish - all meanings in English

fondle

ˈfɒn.dəl

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

Fondle - all meanings in English

fumble

ˈfʌm.bəl

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

Fumble - all meanings in English

goose

ɡuːs

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

Goose - all meanings in English

hunt

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

Hunt - all meanings in English

look

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.’

Look - all meanings in English

maul

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

Maul - all meanings in English

molest

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

Molest - all meanings in English

paw

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

Paw - all meanings in English

root about

phrasal verb
To search for something, especially by looking through other things
Usage examples:
She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

Root about - all meanings in English

root around

phrasal verb
To search for something, especially by looking through other things
Usage examples:
She was rooting around in her drawer for a pencil.

Root around - all meanings in English

scrabble

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.

Scrabble - all meanings in English

search

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

Search - all meanings in English

touch

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

Touch - all meanings in English

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