2. Verb. (third-person singular of grope) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gropes
1. grope [v] - See also: grope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gropes
Literary usage of Gropes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"1737. which, when not excessive, is of great utility to the gropes, keeping the
skin soft and distensible, as well as thin, and allowing thereby the solar ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1886)
"He said the laryngoscope is not often enough used by the general practitioner ;
without it he gropes in the dark. The necessary instruments are not numerous ..."
3. Tom Slade on a Transport by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1918)
"CHAPTER X HE GOES BELOW AND gropes IN THE DARK THERE were half a dozen or more
staterooms along this passage. At the end of it was the steep, greasy flight ..."
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