Groping : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Groping	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Groping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
groping adj acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand"
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.