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Webster 1913 Edition


Agrope

A-grope′

,
adv.
&
Adj.
[Pref.
a-
+
grope
.]
In the act of groping.
Mrs. Browning.

Definition 2024


agrope

agrope

English

Adverb

agrope (not comparable)

  1. In the act of groping.
    • Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
      And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope.
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