Definition of Grope

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Definition of Grope

Grope

To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

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.

To search out by feeling in the dark; as, we groped our way at midnight.

To examine; to test; to sound.

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Grope Quotations

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.
Bob Geldof

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
John Strachan

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Shana Alexander

Grope Translations

grope in Dutch is voelen, bevoelen, tasten, betasten
grope in German is tasten
grope in Italian is tastare
grope in Spanish is tentar
grope in Swedish is treva, famla

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