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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grope \Grope\, verb (used with an object)
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. ).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grope \Grope\ (gr[=o]p), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Groped} (gr[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Groping}.] [OE. gropen, gropien, grapien, AS. gr[=a]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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grope
noun: the act of groping; and instance of groping
verb
1: feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" [syn: {fumble}]
2: search blindly or uncertainly; "His mind groped to make the connection"
3: fondle for sexual pleasure; "He made some sexual advances at the woman in his office and groped her repeatedly"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "grope": agonize over, be at sea, be uncertain, beat about, doubt, examine, explore, feel, feel around, feel for, feel unsure, fish, flounder, fumble, grabble, grope for, poke, poke around, probe, prod, pry, pry around, puzzle over, question, quick look, root, scrabble, search, tentative examination, thrash about, wonder, wonder whether
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