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Webster 1913 Edition


Grope

Grope

(grōp)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Groped
(grōpt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Groping
.]
[OE.
gropen
,
gropien
,
grapien
, AS.
grāpian
to touch, grope, fr.
grīpan
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.

Grope

,
Verb.
T.
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. ).

Webster 1828 Edition


Grope

GROPE

, v.i.
1.
To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
We grope for the wall like the blind. Is.59.
The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2.
To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.

GROPE

,
Verb.
T.
To search by feeling in the dark.
We groped our way at midnight.
But Strephon, cautious, never meant
The bottom of the pan to grope.

Definition 2024


gropë

gropë

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Albanian

Noun

gropë f (indefinite plural gropa, definite singular gropa, definite plural gropat)

  1. pit

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