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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Grope \Grope\ (gr[=o]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Groped} (gr[=o]pt); p. pr & vb n. {Groping}.] [OE. gropen, gropien grapien AS gr[=a]pian to touch, grope, fr gr[imac]pan 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: groping adj : acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence; "a groping effort to understand" [syn: {hesitant}]
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