the act of groping; and instance of groping fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
disapproval If one person gropes another, they touch or take hold of them in a rough, sexual way. He would try to grope her breasts and put his hand up her skirt. Grope is also a noun. She even boasted of having a grope in a cupboard with a 13-year-old. touching someone's body to get sexual pleasure, especially when they do not want you to do this
fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
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
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
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. + groping gropings grop·ing They continue their groping towards a constitutional settlement