Definition of "pawed" [pawed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of paw. (verb)

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• "Many among them had never seen a European before, and not content with accurately inspecting them on every side, came close up to the travellers, and "pawed" them all over."
• "Know a story of a woman up north (Yukon or Alaska) was attacked by a bear while hiking and only had a. 22-she unloaded that rifle IN THE BEAR'S MOUTH after it pawed her to the ground."
• "That said, he has not complained once (initially, he pawed at the foreign object around his head ... and that was it!)"