Definitions for groping

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Spelling: [groh-ping]

IPA: /ˈgroʊ pɪŋ/

Groping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in groping (gginopr).

Definitions for groping

noun

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

adjective

1. moving or going about clumsily or hesitantly; stumbling.
2. showing or reflecting a desire to understand, especially something that proves puzzling:

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 groping

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at grope, -ing²

Examples for groping

I understand that groping our way toward a shared justice will never be easy, nor will it be perfect.

The U.S. Open of Surfing dissolved into vandalism, looting, and groping.

Luckily, the old Frenchman was groping his way next the other wall.

I caught at it, and, groping up the stairs, gained my high window-seat.

They are groping for some modulation, some way to translate complicated moral intuitions into rules a society can live by.

“He was groping for some way to phrase the emotions that usually were kept securely locked up,” said Eleanor.

Instead, Republicans are groping for answers as the slow march toward the fiscal cliff leaves them ever more divided.

Do you suppose I'd want him to just go 'groping around' like he was telling you?

In college he had appealed to me because there I was groping and had found nothing.

Dorcas went to her bedroom, touching the walls, on the way, with her groping hands.