Английский Этимологический словарь - grope
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Grope
grope
- O.E. grapian "to feel or handle," related to gripan "grasp at" (see gripe).
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~1 v 1 to try to find something that you cannot see by feeling with your hands + for/through/around etc (Ginny groped for her glasses on the bedside table. | groping around in the dark) 2 grope your way along/across etc. to go somewhere by feeling the way with your hands because you cannot see (I groped my way along the wall to the door.) 3 to try hard to find the right words to say, or the right solution to a problem but without any real idea of how to do this + for (Accusations of misconduct left Keeler groping for a response.) 4 informal to move your hands over someone's body to get sexual pleasure, especially when they do not want you to do this ~2 n informal an act of groping (grope1 (4)) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(gropes, groping, groped) 1. If you grope for something that you cannot see, you try to find it by moving your hands around in order to feel it. With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open... Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet. = fumble VERB: V for n, V adv/prep 2. If you grope your way to a place, you move there, holding your hands in front of you and feeling the way because you cannot see anything. I didn’t turn on the light, but groped my way across the room. = feel VERB: V way prep/adv 3. If you grope for something, for example the solution to a problem, you try to think of it, when you have no real idea what it could be. She groped for a simple word to express a simple idea. VERB: V for n, also V towards n • groping (gropings) They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement. N-VAR 4. If one person gropes another, they touch or take hold of them in a rough, sexual way. (INFORMAL) He would try to grope her breasts and put his hand up her skirt. VERB: V n c darkgreen]disapproval • Grope is also a noun. She even boasted of having a grope in a cupboard with a 13-year-old. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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verb (~d; groping) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grapian; akin to Old English gripan to seize Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to feel about blindly or uncertainly in search ~ for the light switch 2. to look for something blindly or uncertainly ~ for the right words 3. to feel one's way transitive verb 1. feel up 2. to find (as one's way) by groping • ~ noun • ~r noun GROPER noun see grope ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. (usu. foll. by for) feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands. 2 intr. (foll. by for, after) search mentally (was groping for the answer). 3 tr. feel (one's way) towards something. 4 tr. sl. fondle clumsily for sexual pleasure. --n. the process or an instance of groping. Derivatives groper n. gropingly adv. Etymology: OE grapian f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. редк. ощупывание 2. ощупывать, идти ощупью to grope in the dark —- двигаться ощупью в темноте to grope one's way through a dark street —- ощупью идти по темной улице to grope one's way out of a room —- ощупью выбраться из комнаты 3. искать, нащупывать to grope for smb.'s hand —- искать (ощупью) чью-либо руку to grope for the door-handle —- нащупывать дверную ручку to grope in one's drawer for a key —- нашаривать ключ в ящике 4. искать, подыскивать to grope for words —- подыскивать слова 5. искать, добиваться, доискиваться to grope for knowledge —- искать знаний, по крупице добывать знания to grope for an answer —- искать ответ to grope after the truth —- доискиваться правды to grope about for information —- рыскать в поисках сведений ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) ощупывать, идти ощупью (тж. grope about/around) Why are you groping about in the dark? Heres the light! 2) искать (for, after); fig. нащупывать Why grope after the meaning of a word? ...Англо-русский словарь
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