What does "grope" mean?
Grope: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.
- 3.To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.
- 4.To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] Chaucer. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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