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Another word for grope

Verb

  1. To reach about or search blindly or uncertainly

    2. See also:

    touch

    seek

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Another word for grope

Verb
    2. See also:

    feel

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He continued to grope his way forward until the first turn in the tunnel closed off what little light spilled in from the entrance.

  • And that meant he could have a good grope in the dark.

  • He felt helpless and ineffective in dealing with this scoundrel who dared grope his wife in Dean's own house!

  • grope at noonday!

  • What will be next, tongues and a quick grope?

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