grope
/groʊp/ v [I/T]Definition
› to search for something you cannot see or find easily, esp. by feeling with your hands: [I] She stands on her toes and gropes around on the closet shelf. › infml Someone who gropes someone else touches that person’s body without permission.
(Definition of grope v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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