1 VERB 摸索;探寻 If you grope for something that you cannot see, you try to find it by moving your hands around in order to feel it. 摸索;探寻
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With his left hand he groped for the knob, turned it, and pulled the door open. [VERB + for]
他左手摸索着门把手,转动一下,然后推开门。
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Bunbury groped in his breast pocket for his wallet. [VERB adv./prep.]
邦伯里手伸进前胸口袋里摸索钱包。
SYN feel, search, fumble, flounder
2 VERB 摸索着走 If you grope your way to a place, you move there, holding your hands in front of you and feeling the way because you cannot see anything. 摸索着走
3 VERB 探索;努力寻求 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. 探索;努力寻求 [Also V + towards]
4 VERB 抚摸;猥亵 If one person gropes another, they touch or take hold of them in a rough, sexual way. 抚摸;猥亵 [informal, disapproval]
SYN fondle, touch, stroke, caress
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