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groping
(encz) | groping,osahávání n: Zdeněk Brož |
groping
(encz) | groping,tápání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Groping
(gcide) | 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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groping
(wn) | groping
adj 1: acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of
confidence; "a groping effort to understand" |
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groping
(encz) | groping,osahávání n: Zdeněk Brožgroping,tápání n: Zdeněk Brož |
gropingly
(encz) | gropingly, |
Gropingly
(gcide) | Gropingly \Grop"ing*ly\, adv.
In a groping manner.
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groping
(wn) | groping
adj 1: acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of
confidence; "a groping effort to understand" |
gropingly
(wn) | gropingly
adv 1: in an uncertain groping manner |
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