Definitions for gropes

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gropes grope

Spelling: [grohp]

IPA: /groʊp/

Gropes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in gropes (egoprs).

Definitions for gropes

noun

1. an act or instance of groping.
2. Slang. an act or instance of sexually fondling another person.

verb (used with object)

1. to seek by or as if by groping:
2. to touch or handle (someone) for sexual pleasure.

verb (used without object)

1. to feel about with the hands; feel one's way:
2. to search blindly or uncertainly:

Origin of gropes

before 900; Middle English gropien, Old English grāpian, derivative of grāp grasp; akin to gripe, grasp

Examples for gropes

They had to grope in the corners, and occasionally their hands touched.

From there he was forced to grope his way down the dark hall to the stairs.

Strive and grope as he would, the thing had driven him on relentlessly.

When Winston and some of his friends followed her there and tried to grope her, Brown stabbed Winston in the chest.

His soul was too bruised to grope its way about, but instinct told him that bills must be paid.

Female activists handed out flyers depicting a hand emerging from a military uniform and stretching out to grope a frowning woman.

She knelt to grope for it, and, having found it, she shut the box.

The forward ambulance began to grope its way slowly forward.

We all hope, we all look forward, we all grope for a future which will be better than the present.

It was dark, so that on both occasions we were obliged to grope our way.