Word Meanings - GROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. 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

Additional info about word: GROPE

1. To feel with or use the hands; to handle. 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.

Related words: (words related to GROPE)

• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• BLINDNESS
  State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• BLIND; BLINDE
  See BLENDE
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• BLINDFISH
  A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• CHANDLER
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  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• UNIPERSONAL
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• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• UNIPERSONALIST
  One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.