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щуп noun {m} | dip [dips](dip stick) dipstick [dipsticks](a stick or rod) feeler [feelers](someone or something that feels) probe [probes](any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc) |
щупальце noun {n} | feeler [feelers](an antenna or appendage used to feel, as on an insect) tentacle [tentacles](elongated, boneless, flexible appendage) |
щупать verb {imPlf} | feel [felt, felt, feeling, feels](intransitive: to search by touching) grope [groped, groping, gropes](to search by feeling) paw [pawed, pawing, paws](to touch someone (with the hands) in a sexual way) |
двигаться на ощупь verb | blunder [blundered, blundering, blunders](To move blindly or clumsily) |
двигаться ощупью verb | blunder [blundered, blundering, blunders](To move blindly or clumsily) |
нащупывать verb | fumble [fumbled, fumbling, fumbles](To grope awkwardly in trying to find something) |
нащупывать verb {imPlf} | feel [felt, felt, feeling, feels](intransitive: to search by touching) grope [groped, groping, gropes](obsolete: to feel with or use the hands) |
ощупать verb {Plf} | palpate [palpated, palpating, palpates](to examine by feeling) |
ощупывать verb {imPlf} | feel [felt, felt, feeling, feels](intransitive: to search by touching) grope [groped, groping, gropes](to search by feeling) palpate [palpated, palpating, palpates](to examine by feeling) |
прощупать почву verb {Plf} | test the waters(explore or probe) |
прощупываемый adjective | palpable(that can be detected by palpation) |
прощупывать почву verb {imPlf} | test the waters(explore or probe) |