Definition of Grope for

1. Verb. Feel searchingly. "She groped for his keys in the dark"

Exact synonyms: Scrabble
Generic synonyms: Feel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grope For

groover
groovers
grooves
groovesome
groovester
groovesters
groovier
grooviest
groovily
grooviness
grooving
groovings
groovy
gropable
grope for (current term)
gropeable
groped
gropefest
groper
gropers
gropes
gropest
gropeth
groping
gropingly
gropings
gros point
grosbeak
grosbeaks

Literary usage of Grope for

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"... slenderest of all chances of finding Miss Primrose " SHE WENT TO HER CABIN THE DOOR-HANDLE OK WHICH SHE SEEMED TO grope for AS THOUGH SHE WERE BLIND. ..."

2. The Oceanic Languages: Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin by D. Macdonald (1907)
"/•//v/.] H. nat'ar, Hi. bitir, to loose. Bau', and ndau', vi, d., to go. Ct. rawah, to go. Bau, redup. rarau, v., to grope for with the hand, seize, ..."

3. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"... to grope for with the hand, to seize, to snatch out or away. ... Mota, and Hawaii to grope for and take hold of. The Tonga stem is laut, and this does ..."

4. The Boy from Missouri Valley: Being a Preachment by Elbert Hubbard (1904)
"But * the boy's head only came to the top of the stand- up desk, and when he reached for the letter-book f on the desk he had to grope for it. ..."

5. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1897)
"In the same, "We grope for the wall as the blind,and we grope as they that have no eyes, we stumble in the noon-day as in the twilight; among the living we ..."

6. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1866)
"We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in twilight, as dead among the living," (lix. 9, 10. ..."

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