grope : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: grope	by the DICT Development Group
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"
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.
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. ).