grope

Object

• girl: Gary Glitter confesses groping a little girl - Sun Newspaper sees.. .
• woman: Man jailed for groping woman in Bingo Hall - 19/09/05 Log in to remember this page.
• hand: The cedar's limbs flailed, a ghost's groping hands.

Converse of object

have: And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.

Preposition: at

noonday: The scriptures are sufficient to make us wise; but without the light of the Spirit, how do we grope at noonday!

Adjective modifier

quick: What will be next, tongues and a quick grope?

Modifies a noun

stranger: Want to do more than drown yourself in cheap liquor and grope strangers?

Modifying Another Word

• blindly: The blindly groping ropes of writhing emerald light evoked a primal terror in Vanir's soul, sending chill shivers down her spine.
• about: Groping about with my fingers, I spelled out an Arabic inscription on the wall.
• still: In superstring theories certain details have come first; we are still groping for a unifying insight into the logic of the theory.
• only: So we only groped through the dismal labyrinth of St. Callixtus, under the Church of St. Sebastian.
• forward: Her hands grope forward to lift the first of them.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: She groped around, then, finding them, she put them on.
• out: He flicked his eyelids back shut and groped out for the sides of his unit.

Preposition: in

• darkness: Someone is groping in the darkness to find him.
• dark: Without it is just like ' groping in the dark ' , I do not visit any country without first checking the GPI report.

Preposition: for

• word: I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this or I might say, my God, what have we done?
• answer: Even my little girl was interested and I got loads of questions - for many of which I was groping for an answer.
• way: They were as blind men and as those who grope for the way for 20 years.
• something: They all climbed on board and groped shyly for something to say.