grope

[Grope]

When you grope for something, you try to get a grip on it. If you drop your flashlight in a dark cave, you might grope around for it. Beware of snakes!

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To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

Noun
the act of groping; and instance of groping

Verb
fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"

Verb
feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

Verb
search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"

v. i.
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

v. i.
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

v. t.
To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

v. t.
To examine; to test; to sound.

Grope

Grope , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. grpian to touch, grope, fr. grpan to gripe. See Gripe.] 1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. [Obs.] 2. To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

We grope for the wall like the blind.

To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life.

Grope

Grope, v. t. 1. To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight. 2. To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.

To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

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