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| English Dictionary: grope |
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| 3 results for grope |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- grope
- n
- the act of groping; and instance of groping
- v
- feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her
glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
Synonym(s): grope, fumble
- search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"
- fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Grope \Grope\ (gr[omac]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groped}
(gr[omac]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Groping}.] [OE. gropen,
gropien, grapien, AS. gr[amac]pian to touch, grope, fr.
gr[imac]pan 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. --Is. lix. 10.
To grope a little longer among the miseries and
sensualities ot a worldly life. --Buckminster.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
--Genevan
Test. (Acts
xxiv. ).
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