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Synonyms for grope
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.2 / 5 votes

  1. grope

    Synonyms:
    feel, search, grabble, fumble

    Antonyms:
    grasp, seize, hold, expose

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. gropeverb

    the act of groping; and instance of groping

  2. grope, fumbleverb

    feel about uncertainly or blindly

    "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

    Synonyms:
    spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, mishandle, bollix, foul up, bodge, flub, fumble, botch up, fluff, ball up, screw up, blunder, louse up, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, muck up, bumble, bollocks up, muff

  3. gropeverb

    search blindly or uncertainly

    "His mind groped to make the connection"

    Synonyms:
    fumble

  4. gropeverb

    fondle for sexual pleasure

    "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"

    Synonyms:
    fumble

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gropeverb

    Synonyms:
    feel one's way (as in the dark), pick one's way

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "grope":

    fluff

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#28828bumble
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#30892fumble
#33911muff
#45358blunder
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#63134bungle
#76139grope
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#315643mishandle

How to use grope in a sentence?

  1. The Hollywood Reporter:

    I didnt grope anybody. I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say goodbye and then licked them. Thats my thing I licked Carrie Fisher at a roast. Its me being funny. Im not trying to sexually harass people.

  2. Shawn Crowley:

    Three women, one clear pattern, pounce, kiss, grab, grope, don’t wait. When you’re a star you can do anything you want. And when they speak up about what happened, attack, humiliate them, call them liars. Call them too ugly to assault.


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