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Definition of Grope for
1. Verb. Feel searchingly. "She groped for his keys in the dark"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grope For
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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