1no object, with adverbial Feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands.

她起床摸索着找眼镜。

1. 1.1 Move along with difficulty by feeling objects as one goes.
   摸索着前进
   she blew out the candle and groped her way to the door

   她吹灭了蜡烛，摸索着走到门口。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I groggily got out of bed and groped my way to the medicine chest.
   • Neither my dad nor Chad said anything while I carefully groped my way upstairs.
   • The stream fell away beneath me, and I clambered and groped my way down a wet and slippery rock face, nearly falling.
   • She groped her way back to her cell, where she dragged out the damp-smelling futons and piled on a heavy wad of assorted bedding.
   • Rather than accepting her offered hand, the lad felt for the support beam and groped his way back to his feet.
   • Anywho, after that disaster was all said and done, I groped my way downstairs.
   • She felt around and realised it was a tent she had landed in and groped her way out.
   • As instructed, he turned off the headlights and slowly groped his way through the icy ruts, squinting to see by the parking lights' feeble orange glow.
   • When he regained consciousness, it was dark, and he groped his way down to the village, where a doctor dressed twenty separate wounds that he had suffered in the fall.
   • They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship.
   • I groped my way along the bottom of the boat and popped up into the rapids.
   • Feeling cranky all over again, Matthew stood up abruptly and groped his way to the kitchen.
   • Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
   • The staging of scenes in which the lights go out - actually up - and the actors grope around on stage while the audience can see every move could be silly, but works brilliantly.
   • Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid.
   • Whirling, she groped her way through the hotel's revolving side door.
   • Should we not commemorate in some fashion a young man who worked here among our ancestors and who groped his way through the darkness of the unknown and lit a lamp along the path?
   • He felt his way along the corridor, groping in the darkness for the door he knew would lead outside, facing the east gate.
   • The wife gets out of bed and gropes down the dark corridor barefoot.
   • He stood and groped his way to the edge of the clearing.
2. 1.2grope for Search mentally with hesitation or uncertainty for (a word or answer)
   搜寻（恰当的字眼或回答）
   she was groping for the words which would express what she thought

   她寻找着能够恰当表达自己想法的字眼。

   their groping attempts to create a more meaningful existence

   他们为创造一种更加有意义的生存方式所进行的探索。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But divers grope with words to express the gap between the experience and the recollection.
   • They were red and Katrina's mind groped for the word.
   • If there are conflicting reports, it's important to interrupt your narrative masterpiece to note that and let the reader grope toward his or her own version of the truth.
   • When you're not sure about the exact structure of the page, though, it's better to grope blindly through all the content with a minimum of assumptions.
   • How absurd and self-defeating it would be to argue that artists should or can continue to grope blindly, trusting to accident or mere intuition.
   • He listened patiently and I groped for the words.
   • Perhaps he groped for words he had not yet been taught.
   • The building was - Liz groped for a decent word - compact.
   • Yet today, thousands of years after man first put this question to himself, he is still groping for an answer.
   • Nevertheless, as the attack grew ever more frenzied, I still somehow managed to retain the presence of mind to grope for the necessary remedy.
   • ‘Rhea, please,’ she called, groping for words, but finding none.
   • It seems that many are groping for words that will cause people to pause and think again, not simply reject what is being said based on resistance to its form and style.
   • They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope.
   • That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you.
   • I groped for encouraging words, I fumbled for motivational encouragement, but the words just refused to be found.
   • Lincoln was groping for answers, was a huge reader of the Bible, but not a member of a formal religious denomination, especially early in his career.
   • He spoke rapidly, fervently, occasionally groping for the right word.
   • I had seen it before on the faces of Alzheimer's sufferers, as they groped blindly for something they knew they should remember but couldn't quite grasp.
   • Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
   • I watch, fascinated as I can see him searching, desperately searching, groping for the words.

2informal with object Feel or fondle (someone) for sexual pleasure, especially against their will.

An act of fondling someone for sexual pleasure.

她和史蒂夫悄悄溜走，在一起匆忙爱抚一番。