English-Thai Dictionary

grope

VI คลำหา  เสาะหา  สืบเสาะ หา  fish fumble touch kam-ha

 

grope about

PHRV คลำหา  grope around kam-ha

 

grope about

PHRV พยายาม หา ทางเลี่ยง  pa-ya-yam-ha-tang-liang

 

grope after

PHRV ค้นหา  kon-ha

 

grope after

PHRV พยายาม คลำหา  ควานหา  grope for pa-ya-yam-klam-ha

 

grope around

PHRV คลำหา  grope about kam-ha

 

grope around

PHRV พยายาม หา ทางเลี่ยง  pa-ya-yam-ha-tang-liang

 

grope for

PHRV ค้นหา  kon-ha

 

grope for

PHRV พยายาม คลำหา  ควานหา  grope after pa-ya-yam-klam-ha

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GROPE

v.i. 1. To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
We grope for the wall like the blind. Isaiah 59:1 .
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2. To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.

 

GROPE

v.t.To search by feeling in the dark. We groped our way at midnight.
But Strephon, cautious, never meant
The bottom of the pan to grope.

 

GROPER

n.One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GROPE

Grope, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped; p. pr. & vb. n. Groping. ] Etym: [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr to touch, grope, fr. gr to gripe. See Gripe. ]

 

1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs. ]

 

2. 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. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 1 . To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

 

GROPE

GROPE Grope, v. t.

 

1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

 

2. To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs. ] Chaucer. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).

 

GROPER

GROPER Grop "er, n.

 

Defn: One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

grope

grope |grōp ɡroʊp | ▶verb 1 [ no obj. ] feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands: she got up and groped for her spectacles. • (grope for ) search mentally with hesitation or uncertainty for (a word or answer ): she was groping for the words which would express what she thought | (as adj. groping ) : their groping attempts to create a more meaningful existence. • move along with difficulty by feeling objects as one goes: she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door. 2 [ with obj. ] informal feel or fondle (someone ) for sexual pleasure, esp. against their will: he was accused of groping office girls. ▶noun an act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure: she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope. DERIVATIVES grop ing ly adverb ORIGIN Old English grāpian; related to gripe .

 

groper

groper 1 |ˈgrəʊpə | ▶noun 1 chiefly Austral. /NZ variant spelling of grouper. 2 (also blue groper ) a large Australian wrasse which is a popular sporting fish. ●Achoerodus gouldii, family Labridae.

 

groper

groper 2 |ˈɡrəʊpə | ▶noun a person who fondles someone for sexual pleasure, especially without the person's consent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

grope

grope |grəʊp | ▶verb 1 [ no obj., with adverbial ] search blindly or uncertainly by feeling with the hands: she groped for her spectacles. • move along uncertainly by feeling objects as one goes: she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door. • (grope for ) search uncertainly for (a word or answer ) in one's mind: she was groping for the words which would express what she thought. 2 [ with obj. ] informal fondle (someone ) for sexual pleasure roughly or clumsily, or without the person's consent: he was accused of groping office girls. ▶noun an act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure: she and Steve sneaked off for a quick grope. DERIVATIVES gropingly adverb ORIGIN Old English grāpian, of West Germanic origin; related to gripe .

 

groper

groper 1 |ˈgrəʊpə | ▶noun 1 chiefly Austral. /NZ variant spelling of grouper. 2 (also blue groper ) a large Australian wrasse which is a popular sporting fish. ●Achoerodus gouldii, family Labridae.

 

groper

groper 2 |ˈɡrəʊpə | ▶noun a person who fondles someone for sexual pleasure, especially without the person's consent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

grope

grope verb 1 she groped for her glasses: fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret, rummage, feel, search, hunt. 2 informal one of the men started groping her: fondle, touch; informal paw, maul, feel up, touch up.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

grope

grope verb 1 Ruth groped for her sunglasses: fumble, scrabble, fish, ferret (about /around ), rummage (about /around /round ), root about /around, feel, cast about /around /round, search, hunt, look; Brit. informal rootle around; rare grabble, roust around. 2 informal he was accused of groping his secretaries: fondle, touch; molest, interfere with, assault, sexually assault, abuse, sexually abuse; informal paw, maul, feel up, touch up, goose.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

grope

grope /ɡroʊp /動詞 ～s /-s /; ～d /-t /; groping 自動詞 1 〖通例 ～＋副詞 〗〈人 (の手 )などが 〉 (辺りを )手探りする (around, about ); «…を » 手探りで探す (about ) «for , after » ; «…の方へ » 手探りで進む «to , toward » ▸ grope through the room for a key かぎを探して部屋中を手探りする 2 ｟比喩的に ｠(暗中模索の状況で ) «…を » 探し求める ;【適切な言葉 答えなどを 】何とかして言おうとする «for , after , toward » .他動詞 1 ｟くだけて 非難して ｠(痴漢行為として )〈女 〉の体を触る, …をまさぐる .2 〖～ one's way 〗手探りしつつ進む (!時に比喩的に ) ▸ scientists groping their way to the mystery of the brain (暗中模索しながら )脳の神秘の解明へと近づいていく科学者たち 名詞 C ｟くだけて ｠手探りすること ; 痴漢行為 .gr ó p ing ly 副詞 手探りで .