groping

3 definitions • 3 examples

present participle of

to feel with your hands, especially in order to find or move towards something when you cannot see easily:

grope for She groped for her glasses on the bedside table.

grope your way I had to grope my way up the dark stairs.

to touch someone's body in order to get sexual pleasure, usually when the person does not like it:

He groped me as I was going to the bar.