Definition of Grope

Pronunciation: grōp
v. i.1.To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
[imp. & p. p. Groped (grōpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Groping.]
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.
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.
Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
- Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).


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