groped

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groped - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
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     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.
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              We grope for the wall like the blind. --Is. lix. 10.
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              To grope a little longer among the miseries and
              sensualities ot a worldly life.       --Buckminster.
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