GROPE FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grope for mean? 

• GROPE FOR (verb)
  The verb GROPE FOR has 1 sense:

1. feel searchingly

  Familiarity information: GROPE FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROPE FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel searchingly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

grope for; scrabble

Context example:

She groped for his keys in the dark

Hypernyms (to "grope for" is one way to...):

feel (grope or feel in search of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Driving snow, a wind that cut like a white-hot knife, and darkness had forced them to grope for a camping place.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She was subtly perturbed by it, and more than once, though she knew not why, it disrupted her train of thought with its delicious intrusion and compelled her to grope for the remainder of ideas partly uttered.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)