Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to grope
Participle: groped
Gerund: groping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | grope |
| you | grope |
| he;she;it | gropes |
| we | grope |
| you | grope |
| they | grope |
Perfect
| I | have groped |
| you | have groped |
| he;she;it | has groped |
| we | have groped |
| you | have groped |
| they | have groped |
Past
| I | groped |
| you | groped |
| he;she;it | groped |
| we | groped |
| you | groped |
| they | groped |
Pluperfect
| I | had groped |
| you | had groped |
| he;she;it | had groped |
| we | had groped |
| you | had groped |
| they | had groped |
Future
| I | will grope |
| you | will grope |
| he;she;it | will grope |
| we | will grope |
| you | will grope |
| they | will grope |
Future Perfect
| I | will have groped |
| you | will have groped |
| he;she;it | will have groped |
| we | will have groped |
| you | will have groped |
| they | will have groped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | grope |
| you | grope |
| he;she;it | grope |
| we | grope |
| you | grope |
| they | grope |
Perfect
| I | have groped |
| you | have groped |
| he;she;it | have groped |
| we | have groped |
| you | have groped |
| they | have groped |
Imperfect
| I | groped |
| you | groped |
| he;she;it | groped |
| we | groped |
| you | groped |
| they | groped |
Pluperfect
| I | had groped |
| you | had groped |
| he;she;it | had groped |
| we | had groped |
| you | had groped |
| they | had groped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would grope |
| you | would grope |
| he;she;it | would grope |
| we | would grope |
| you | would grope |
| they | would grope |
Perfect
| I | would have groped |
| you | would have groped |
| he;she;it | would have groped |
| we | would have groped |
| you | would have groped |
| they | would have groped |
Imperative
| you | grope |
| we | Let's grope |
| you | grope |
Verbs conjugated like 'grope'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'grope'
glope,
grape,
gripe,
grone,
grove,
groze,
grype,
rope,
trope,
brode,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to feel with the hands
- feel
- to search by feel
- feel around
- to touch sexually
- fondle
- to perceive by touch; to detect tactile sensations
- feel, handle, touch
- to touch someone lovingly
- canoodle, caress, chuckle, coax, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, faddle, feel up, fond, fondle, grabble, nantle, pet, pettle, shift, smuggle, tiddle, touch up
- feel
- touch, fumble, finger, handle, grabble
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
grapian "to feel about as one blind or in darkness," originally "to feel or handle," related to
gripan "grasp at" (see gripe). Fig. sense is from c.1325. Indecent sense (marked as "obsolete" in O.E.D.) is from c.1300.
2. From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip.
Verbs referencing "grope"
English
grasp, Icelandic
greipa.
Sample Sentences
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[...] forward, and slip on the shining face of a black steward, who lies rolled in a blanket on the floor. He jumps up, grins, half in pain and half in hospitality; whispers my own name in my ear; and groping among the sleepers, leads me to my berth. Standing beside it, I count these slumbering passengers, and get past forty. There is no use in going further, so I begin to undress. As the chairs are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of the boat, at one of the tables, drawing lots with all the anxieties and passions of gamesters depicted in their countenances; while others, with small pieces of cardboard in their hands, were groping among the shelves in search of numbers corresponding with those they had drawn. As soon as any gentleman found his number, he took possession of it by immediately undressing himself and crawling [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Franklin, a beautiful mail steamboat, and reached Cincinnati shortly after midnight. Being by this time nearly tired of sleeping upon shelves, we had remained awake to go ashore straightway; and groping a passage across the dark decks of other boats, and among labyrinths of engine-machinery and leaking casks of molasses, we reached the streets, knocked up the porter at the hotel where we had stayed [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)